520 A SHORT HISTORY OP THE 



wards beat him twice without much difficulty. She also beat 

 Highland Maid twice, Green Mountain Maid three times, Tacony 

 seven times, Rhode Island three times, and Lady Brooks and 

 Lady Vernon each once. She suffered defeat from Tacony, and 

 once each from Black Douglas and Green Mountain INLnid. The 

 next year she defeated Mac, Lody Brooks, Jack Waters, and 

 Green Mountain Maid, and was beaten but once — by Green 

 Mountain Maid. In 1855, after being defeated in her opening 

 race by the gray mare Sontag, and then vainly endeavoring to 

 trot twenty miles against time, she won six races right off the reel, 

 defeating Lancet, Sontag, Lady Franklin, Chicago Jack, Miller's 

 Damsel, Frank Forrester, and Hero the pacer. The next two 

 years were principally distingTiished by her contests with the slashing 

 black gelding Lancet, in which she carried off most of the honors, 

 although she also found time to meet and conquer Tacony, Chicago 

 Jack, Rose of Washington, Ethan Allen, and others, and reduced 

 her record to 2 m. 24^ s. In 1858 she was sold to Mr. William 

 McDonald, a wealthy gentleman of Baltimore, for $8000, and 

 during the year scored thirteen victories without a single defeat. 

 Her first race in 1859 was with Ethan Allen, at the Fashion 

 Course, to wagon. Ethan Allen was a beautiful horse, fast and 

 game, with fiiultless trotting action, but withal not a good weight 

 puller. With a running mate to take the weight of the wagon off 

 of him he could trot like a flash of light, but by himself his fastest 

 time is 2 m. 25^ s. At the stud he was a success, and his sons 

 and grandsons have done much to add to the fame of the Morgan 

 family. On this occasion Flora beat him in the quick time 

 of 2 m. 25 s., 2 m. 27 J s., and 2 m. 27h s. On June IG, she met 

 the bay mare Princess, who had come from California with a great 

 reputation, especially as a long-distance trotter, but Flora beat her, 

 at the Eclipse Course, three-mile heats, to wagon, in 7 m. 54 s., 

 and 7 m. 59] s. In their second encninter at the same place, 

 twelve days later. Princess won in straight heats, in 5 m. 2 s. and 

 5 m. 5 s., and many astute turfmen thought that the little bay 

 mare had met her mistress; but their third time of meeting Flora 

 won in the quick time for those days of 2 m. 23j s., 2 m. 22 s., 

 and 2 m. 231 s., and in the fourth encounter — a race of two-mile 

 heats — she likewise beat her, in the marvellous time of 4 m 5O2 s. 

 and 5 m. 5 s. These defeats settled the question of supremacy, 

 and conquered the spirit of the California mare, and, though they 

 afterwards went on a hippodroming tour through the country. 

 Princess never won anotluT race from her. But Flora's greatest 

 glory was to come. On October 15, 1859, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 

 in a race with Princess and Honest Anse, she electrified the whole 

 country by trotting the third heat in 2 m. 19| s., which for eight 



