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also a very fine and fast-trotting stallion, the pride of what is 

 called the " Morgan breed," and a horse of undeniable merit. 



He was got by the Morgan Black Hawk, dam a medimn 

 size white mare, said to be of the Messenger breed. 



Black Hawk was got by Sherman Morgan, his dam a fast 

 black mare, said to be an English half-bred. 



Sherman was son of the original or Justin Morgan, out of a 

 mare variously said to be of a " Spanish breed," and an im- 

 ported English saddle mare. 



Ethan Allen trotted this year, mile-heats, in harness, for a 

 purse of $15 for 3 years old, against Chazy, a filly, and a chest- 

 nut gelding, at the Clinton Co. Fair, N. Y., and won the purse 

 in 3.20 — 3.21. This is noticed, not on account of the time, but 

 in view of the celebrity of the animal, who is now claimed to 

 be the fastest trotting stallion in the world. 



This year, also, appeared Flora Temple, who, so far as 

 present appearances can be held to justify predictions, seems 

 destined to succeed to the place lately vacated by Lady Suffolk. 



In this place I shall say nothing of her pretended ftedigree, 

 for that will come in due course with a memoir, to which her 

 distinction entitles her, and which will follow this branch of my 

 subject. 



Flora won, this year, her first on the regular turf, althri-gh 

 she had won a private match on the Ked House irack, at 

 Harlem, and one, likewise, on the Union Course, three times, 

 winning every time she started, although she was once drawn, 

 in a purse and sweejDstakes won by Lady Brooks ; Pet, "War 

 Eagle, George West, and Flora Temple entered, the first two 

 only starting for the stakes. 



Her first trot was mile-heats, best three in five, for a purse 

 and sweepstakes, in harness. Li this she beat Brown Jim 

 three straight heats, in 2.43 — 2.41 — 2.43. She also beat Young 

 Dutchman a match of mile-heats, three in five, in 2.40 — 2.39 — 

 3.36^ — and, in December of the same season, Centreville, the 

 same match, in 250 lbs. wagons — all these races she won with 

 out losing so much as a single heat. But the time was not par- 

 ticularly good, and she had, as yet, excited but little attention. 



Another barbarous time-match — the most barbarous yet ! — 

 disgraces the annals of this year. "The spc^tted mare Anna 



