CHAPTEK XXIII. 



OLD-TIME TROTTERS. — Continued. 



Flora Temple — Pedigree and place of breeding — Sale for $13 when four 

 years old — Sale to Jonathan Vielee — Sale to George E. Perrin — Her 

 first race — Her peculiar race with Whitehall, Delaware Maid, etc. — 

 Races in 1852 — Her sale in 1852 for $1,000 — Her races in 1853 — 

 Flora's great race with Lancet for $3,000 — Sale in 1858 for $8,000 — 

 Race with George M. Patchen — Last race in 1861 — Confiscated to 

 United States Government — Sold when 19 years old for $8,000. 



FLORA Temple was foaled in Oneida county, near Utica, 

 1ST. Y., in 1845. She was bred by Samuel Welch, and 

 sired by One Eyed Hunter, a son of Kentucky Hunter, thor- 

 oughbred. Her dam was Madam Temple, a little bay mare 

 said to be the very picture of herself, and sired by a spotted 

 horse. She was, when full grown, 14-1 in height. As dock- 

 ing was fashionable in those times, she was docked with a 

 jackknife before she was an hour old, and she stood on her 

 feet at that time, and had the same gray hairs at the root 

 of her tail that she carried through life, which was all the 

 white markings connected with her. 



Her owner at four years old, a Mr. Taney, finding her so 

 willful as to be unserviceable to him, sold her for $13 to ¥m. 

 H. Congdon of Symrna, Chenango county. Mr. Congdon, 

 after keeping her awhile, sold her to Kelly and Eichardson for 

 $63, and after changing hands once or twice more (as she was 

 trading goods) she fell into the hands of a drover buying cattle 

 for the New York market, at $80. This drover sold her on the 

 way to New York to Jonathan Vielee, a horse dealer of 

 "Washington Hollow, Dutchess county, for $175, who sold her 

 shortly afterwards to George E. Perrin of New York city for 

 $350. 



In the hands of Mr. Perrin, the little bay mare that had 



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