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THE HORSE 



IN ORDER TO ESTIMATE the truth of this statement it is only necessary to 

 investigate the pedigrees of the chief public performers in trotting and 

 pacing. Among those most celebrated in the " fifties " may be mentioned 

 Flora Temple, whose portrait is here reproduced. 



FLORA TEMPLE. 



THIS CELEBRATED MARE was got by a horse of doubtful pedigree, called 

 "One-eyed Kentucky Hunter," out of a clever and fast-trotting mare, 

 Madame Temple, who was said to be by a spotted Arabian sire. She was 

 foaled in 1845, at Langerford, Oneida County, New York, and was sold by 

 her breeder to Messrs. Richardson and Kellog, of Eaton, Madison County, 



FLORA TEMPLE. 



New York, who used her for livery purposes for nearly two years, when 

 she was resold to a Mr. Velie, and finally to Mr. G. E. Perrin, of New 

 York City, who speedily developed her extraordinary powers by constant 

 trials against the trotters of the various gentlemen of that city. In 

 September 1850 she won her first public match over the Union course, 

 since which, with the exception of the year 1851 when she was lamed 

 by an accident, she has had an almost uninterrupted series of victories, 

 winding up with her defeat of Geo. M. Patchen, in June 1860. She was a 

 rich blood bay, with black points, and no white. In height, 14 hands 

 2 inches, with great power and wiriness of frame. Her head, as will be 

 seen by reference to her portrait, is as light as that of an Arab, and has, 

 indeed, all the characteristics of that blood. Her shoulders are very long 

 and sloping, and, though standing over a deal of ground, she is very short 



