ri\ CONTENTS. 



— Flora and Soiitag. — Flora's Match Twenty Miles to Wagon. — Flora 

 and Kiiow-Xothing. — Description of Know-Nothing, afterwards Lancet. 



— Flora and Lady Franklin. — Flora and Chicago Jack. — Flora, Frank 

 Forrester, Chicago Jack, and Miller's Damsel 20C 



XXXIII. 



The Time-Test. — Saddle-Horsea. — Riders of Trotters. — Mace, Murphy, 

 and Doble. — Flora and Lancet. — Trusting to Trials. — Flora and Ta- 

 cony. — Flora distances hira in 2m. ^.^s. — The True Explanation of 

 that Heat. — Caution to Young Drivers 274 



XXXIV. 



Flora and Lancet.— The Morgan Horses.— Ethan Allen. — His Breeding.— 

 His Produce. — Flora and Ethan Allen.— Flora's Winter-Quarters.- 

 Flora and Rose of Washington. — Want of Condition sure to beat any 

 thing. — Value of a Race in Public to produce Condition. . . .281 



XXXV. 



Introduction of Hippodroming. — Flora, Lancet, Miller's Damsel, and Red- 

 bird. — Flora and Brown Dick. — Flora purchased by Mr. McDonald. — 

 Hippodroming again. — Flora and Prince. — Flora and IkeCook. — Flora 

 and Reindeer. — The coming Horses, Princess and Q-eorge M. Patchen. . 288 



XXXVI. 



Flora Temple and Ethan Allen. — Flora and Princess. — Description of Prin- 

 cess. — Her Driver, James Eoff. — His Artful Strategy and Inveterate 

 Humbug. — Princess beats Flora Two-mile Heats. — Flora wins, Mile- 

 Heats Three in Five. — The Best Previous Time beaten in all the Heats. 29S 



XXXVII. 



Flora Ttinple and Princess again. — Flora wins Two-Mile Heats. — They go 

 Hippodroming. — Flora trots in 2m. 21is., with Ike Cook, at Cincinnati. 



— Her Performance at Kalamazoo. — 2m. 19]s 303 



XXXVIII. 



Flora Temple and George M. Patchen. — Description of Patchen. — His 

 Pedigree. — Patcheu's Early Performances. — Dan Mace as a Driver and 

 Rider. — Flora and Ethan Allen.- Flora and Patchen again. — The best 

 Race ever made by Flora, and the best a Stallion ever made. . . . 309 



XXXIX. 



Flora Temple and Patchen, Two-mile Heats. — Flora and Patchen at Phila- 

 delphia.— Outside Interference 310 



XL. 



Flora Temple and Patchen again. — A dishonored Check. — Appeal to aid 

 Decision of th^ Judges. — Flora and Brown Dick. — Flora and Ethan 

 Allen. — Floi a a..'! Patchen again. — Flora against Dutchman's Time. . 32S 



