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heats in liarness, but was himself dc featcd three days after* 

 wards, to wagons, in three heats. Utica was the next place ; 

 and there l^'lora beat him in a capital race of three straight 

 heats,— 2.33^, 2.27, 2.28^. The mare beat him again 

 at Saratoga, and at Philadelphia in September. She then 

 returned homo, and remained until October. On the loth 

 of that month she was at Philadelphia again, there to con- 

 tend with Green-Mountain Maid and Lady Vernon, at mile 

 heats, three in five, in harness, for a purse of $1,000. 



Green-Mountain Maid was a mare of the Messenger blood 

 on the sire's side. She was bred in the Green Mountains 

 of Vermont, and was got by the famous horse Harris's Ham- 

 bletonian (also called Vermont Hambletonian), a grandson 

 of Messenger. It is not kno\vii what her dam was. Green- 

 Mountain Maid herself was a chestnut, fifteen three inches 

 scant, very long in the body, with strong, powerful limbs 

 and large quarters. Her shoulders were very flat and 

 oblique, running right back to the saddle. She belonged to 

 Mr. F. J. Nodine, who purchased her and brought her to 

 Brooklyn in the fall of 1851, when she was five years old. 

 She was entered in six or seven purses and stakes the next 

 year ; and what she didn^t win, she received forfeit for. At 

 the Centreville Course, in the following year, she beat Lady 

 Brooks in four heats to wagons. The best time was 2m. 

 3Gs. It was on the 18th of April. Three days afterwards 

 she beat Kemble Jackson, in a desperate race of five heats 

 to wagons. She took the first and second; he got the third; 

 the fourth was dead ; and she won the fifth. Time, 2.47, 

 2.50, 2.34, 2.36, 2.50. 



The race at Philadelphia resulted in a victory for Flora. 

 She won easily in 2.33, 2.33^, 2.333. But at Rochester, on 

 the 1st of November, Green-Mountain Maid succeeded in 

 reversing the verdict. They trotted five heats ; and tlfe big 

 chestnut mare got the first, third, and fifth. The time was 

 2.40, 2.35, 2.35, 2.36, 2.38. The two mares then went to 

 Cincinnati, and I did not accompany Flora. At that place, 



