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maintaiced for three miles, winnino; the first heat ia 8 m. 3 s. 

 Though Kemble Jacksou had won the first heat, O'Blenis was still 

 the favorite, as almost every cue expected to see the son of Andrew 

 Jackson make one of his characteristic breaks when pushed by 

 O'Blenis; but thanks to the efficacy of the newly-invented roin and 

 the careful handling' of the master reiusman, Hiram Woodruff, to 

 the amazement of the spectators he did not make a single break, 

 and won the second heat and the race easily in 8 m. 4| s. ; and though 

 the time has been frequently beaten, this is generally considered 

 one of the best three-mile races ever witnessed on Long Island. 

 His death, which occurred from a rupture a few weeks after this 

 event, was a great loss to the turf. 



Scarcely had the star of Lady Suffolk set behind the horizon 

 when another star arose whose glory was to eclipse even that of the 

 gallant gray mare. Flora Temple was foaled in 1845 in Oneida 

 Co., N. Y., and made her debut in the summer of 1850, and from 

 that time to her forced retirement in 18GI, her career was one of 

 almost uninterrupted victory. During her career on the turf she 

 trotted one hundred and eleven races, winning ninety three, and 

 earning for her owners in purses and stakes the sum of $113,000. 

 She was a blood bay, by One-Eyed Kentucky Hunter out of 

 Madame Temple, who was got by a spotted horse said to be an 

 Arabian. She was 14j hands high, with black legs, mane and 

 tail, and had a peculiarly quick and nervous gait. When she was 

 but an hour old her breeder, Mr. Tracy, cut off her tail with his 

 jack-knife so short that she was for some time afterwards known as 

 the '• stump-tailed filly." Mr. Tracy kept her until she was four 

 years old, when, finding her willful and unserviceable, he disposed of 

 her to Mr. William H. Congdon, of Smyrna, Chenango county, for 

 the sum of tliirtern dollars. Mr. Coogdon shortly afterwards dis- 

 posed of her to Kelly & Richardson for $68. After passing through 

 several hands, part of the time working in a livery stable, she was 

 sold to Mr. George E. Perrin, of New York, for $350, in whose 

 hands the flighty young mare became a true stepper. Her first 

 regular appearance on the turf was at the Union Course, L. I., 

 September *J, 1850, where, a mere outsider, to the astonishment of 

 the turf habitues, she defeated Whitehall and three others, for the 

 magnificent purse of $50, in 2 m. 55 s., 2 m. 52 s., and 2 m. 49 s., 

 after Whitehall had won the first heat in 2 m. 52 s. The next year, 

 owing to an accident, she was not in training, and in 1852 she 

 trotted but two races, both of which she won ; but in 1853 she 

 entered in earnest upon her wonderful career, trotting twenty-one 

 races and winning seventeen of them. Her first race that year was 

 at the old Hunting Park Course, Philadelphia, where she was 

 beaten by Black Douglas, a horse of some local celebrity, but afterr 



