48 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



passed from his control, and in 1864 was pur- 

 chased by Aristides Welch of Philadelphia, who 

 put her to breeding. She produced, in 1868, the 

 bay filly Kitty Temple by Rysdyk (son of 

 Rysdyk's Hambletonian and Lady Duke by 

 Lexington). The foal of 1869 was Prince Im- 

 perial, a bay colt, by William Welch, son of Rys- 

 dyk's Hambletonian and a daughter of imported 

 Trustee. He was sold to Robert Bonner, for 

 whom he trotted a mile in 2.2 3|, and he is a sire 

 of speed. The third, and last, foal of Flora Tem- 

 ple was a bay filly (1871), The Queen's Daughter, 

 by imported Leamington (son of Faugh-a- 

 Ballagh), tracing to the W^axy and Blacklock 

 strains, and the sire of such race-horses and sires 

 as Enquirer, Iroquois (the only American-bred 

 horse that ever won the English Derby) and 

 Longfellow, who was the sensational conqueror 

 of Harry Bassett. The Queen's Daughter is a 

 dam of speed. Flora Temple died December 21, 

 1877, without doing much to perpetuate her line. 

 The last time I was at Erdenheim, when the 

 place was owned by N. W. Kittson, I stood with 

 uncovered head by the stone slab which marks 

 her grave and that of Leamington. 



