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Flora Temple and Tacony. — Description of Tacony. — Flora, Green -Moan- 

 tain Maid, and Lady Vernon. — Description of Green-Mountain Maid — 

 Flora and Rhode Island. — Flora goes to New Orleans, comes back, and 

 is purchased by Mr. Pettee. — Flora and Mac. — Flora and Jack Waters.— 

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

 Know-Nothing.— Description of Know-Nothing, afterwards Lancet. — Flora 

 and Lady Franklin. — Flora and Chicago Jack. — Flora, Fra)ik Forrester, 

 Chicago Jack, and Miller's Damsel. 



AS soon as Flora had defeated Highland Maid and 

 Black Douglas, she was matched against Tacony. 

 mile heats, three in five, in harness, the race to come off 

 on the 14th of July, over the Union Course. Tacony was 

 a roan gelding, hred in Canada. His reputation was high, 

 but more particularly as a saddle-horse. He had trotted 

 two consecutive heats, that way of going, against Mac, in 

 2m. 25 ^s. each. The match created a vast amount of interest. 

 The betting ran high, and it was about even. The little 

 mare had not made such fast time as Tacony : but the heat 

 of 2m. 28s. to wagon was thought to be as good as 2m. 25|s. 

 under saddle; and, besides this, the game and bottom ex- 

 hibited by Flora in her race of five desperate heats with 

 Highland Maid, and then in her contest with Black Douglas 

 only two days thereafter, had inspired her friends and ad- 

 mirers with very great and reasonable confidence. 



The attendance at the course was large, and the mare had 

 a trifle the call in the betting. I thought well of her, 

 although she did not exhibit as much of her dash and devil 

 in scoring as I had sometimes experienced. The result con- 

 vinced me that she was not quite up to the mark. The 



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