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mot ai^ain. on tho Union Course, Long Island, and it took five 

 heats to beat him. The best time in that was 2m. 2l8. 



In 18G9 Lady Thorn had become the property of Mr. A. Welch, 

 of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. He is a man of travel, experi- 

 ence, and enterprise, and much interested in horses. Before he 

 purchased Lady Thorn he had bought Flora Temple, and since he 

 has acquired the famous thoroughbred stallion Leamington. His 

 partner in Lady Thorn was Mr. James McMann of this city, who 

 for so long a time trained and drove Flora Temple, that he will 

 always be remembered in connection with that famous little mare. 

 James also drove the great pacer Pocahontas in her fastest mile, 

 and the trotter Lady Fulton, when she went twenty miles in har- 

 ness within the hour. When Lady Thorn became the property 

 of Messrs. Welch and McMann, some of the young and gallant 

 geiitlemen among the members of the trotting turf thought that 

 they should now easily defeat the old one-eyed mare. But they 

 were slightly mistaken. In fact they reminded me of a lot of fine 

 cock pheasants, prematurely crowing over the anticipated down- 

 fall and coming to grief of a brace of crafty old foxes who har- 

 bored in the neighboring brake. At first the friends of the old 

 mare were somewhat disappointed, for American Girl came out in 

 1869, and beat her two races. These will be more particularly 

 referred to in the sketch of that mare. After one of these defeats 

 Lady Thorn received what she had never had before, nor has had 

 since, viz., a good thrashing. Pfifer, displeased at her way of acting 

 at the Fashion -Course in the race, gave her the whip smartly on 

 the Prospect Park Course. The old mare seemed utteily amazed 

 and electrified. Her one eye shot fire. She gave a leap like a 

 deer, and then shot away upon a trot at such a rate as to amaze 

 all who witnessed it. Soon after, on the 28th of Atigust 186U, 

 she trotted against Goldsmith Maid and American Girl at Pros- 

 pect Park. Pfifer was sick, and Mr. McMann drove her. She 

 beat the other mares with much ease in three straight heats, and 

 came home with her ears pricked in 2m. 203s., 2m. 2()|s., 2m. 



