236 THE H0K8E. 



Flora Temple i8 a blood-bay mare, with black legs, mane, 

 and tail, and no white marks. She stands only fourteen hands 

 two inches high, but has enormous power, combined with great 

 lightness. She has a good, blood like head, broad between the 

 eyes, with a little of the Arab basin-face formation. A pecu- 

 liarly long, sloj^ing shoulder, and a set of legs and feet which 

 are as near as may be to perfection. 



One of lier points, and a great one it is in any horse, 

 and in her, doubtless, one of the great causes of her immense 

 gpeed, so unusual to so small an animal, is this ; that while she 

 is very short in the saddle-place, she m very long below, which 

 gives her the immense, low, long-reaching stride, for which she 

 is as famous as for her quick gather. It is stated in the memoir 

 I have above named, that the stroke of this wonderful little 

 animal has, by actual measurement, been found to equal that 

 of a sixteen hand horse. 



The beautiful engraving of Flora Temple, which will be 

 found in this volume, from the burin of Messrs. Capewell and 

 Kimmel, designed by Mr. L. Maurer, is a faithful portrait of 

 the " little treasure '' in action, and well preserves her charac- 

 teristics. 



It may be as well to say here, in order to save misconstruc- 

 tion, that although her best time, 2.244-, is noted under the 

 plate, that time was not made by her going, as she is here rep- 

 resented, in a skeleton wagon, but in a sulky, against Tacony, 

 under saddle, whom she distanced. 



I now proceed to furnish a regular table of her perform- 

 ances to the end of the year 1856, beyond which I do not pre- 

 tend to carry this work. Where she won, the values of the 

 purses are stated ; where she lost, they are left blank. 



