XXXVIII. 



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

 gree. — Patcheii's Early Performances. — Dan Mace as a Driver and 

 Rider. — Flora and Ethan Allen. — Flora and Patchen aj^Ain.— The best 

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



FLORA TEMPLE, after lier grand exploit at Kala- 

 mazoo, went to Cleveland, where she beat Princess with 

 great ease and in poor time ; and then, at Cuyahoga Falls, on 

 the 28th of October, she beat Ike Cook. They had four heats 

 of it : the second was a dead heat. The time was slow in 

 all of them. At Buifalo, on the 2d of November, Flora 

 beat Ike Cook in three heats, the best of which was 2m. 

 23^s. On the 5th, Flora, Ike Cook, and Belle of Saratoga 

 went three-quarter-mile heats in harness; and Flora won it 

 in three heats. On the 11th, Flora and Ike Cook trotted at 

 St. Catharine's, Canada; and the mare won in three heats. 

 That may be said to have been the last of Flora Temple's 

 hippodroming, at least for a season. 



She was brought to New York, and entered for a purse of 

 $1,000, given by the Union Course. It was mile heats, 

 three in five : the mare was to go in harness, while her only 

 competitor was to go under saddle. This competitor was 

 the famous stallion George M. Patchen, who had not been 

 very long on the turf, but had already proved himself to be 

 fast and lasting, and good in every way of going, eitlier 

 under sadtlle, in harness, or to wagon. He was a powerful 

 brown horse, that had been foaled on the farm of W, H. 

 Si'^kles, which is about half-way between Keyport and 



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