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Course, Long Island, September 9, 1850, and she 

 won a small purse in 2.49. She was not in train- 

 ing in 185 1, owing to a mishap, but won two 

 races in 1852. April 27, 1853, she opened the 

 campaign at Philadelphia, and was kept trotting 

 all summer, beating such horses as Highland 

 Maid, Tacony, Lady Vernon, and Rhode Island. 

 Her last victory for the season was December 3, 

 at Louisville, Kentucky. The 1854 campaign 

 was begun at New Orleans, January 31. In 1856 

 she defeated Ethan Allen; in 1858 Prince and 

 Reindeer; and in 1859 she trotted a series of 

 races with Princess, who had been brought on 

 from California to meet her. October 15, 1859, 

 at Kalamazoo, Michigan, she beat Princess and 

 Honest Anse, trotting the second heat in 2.2 2^ 

 and the third heat in 2.i9|-. This was the first 

 time that a trotter had ever crossed the 2.20 line, 

 and Flora Temple was everywhere hailed as 

 queen of the turf. She was at this time the 

 property of William McDonald, of Baltimore, 

 who paid $8000 for her in 1858. In i860 she 

 trotted a series of races with George M. Patchen, 

 and in 1861 met and defeated John Morgan. 

 The Civil War was now on, and as Mr. McDon- 

 ald's sympathies were with the Confederacy she 



