202 OLD-TIME TROTTERS. 



the regularity of machinery, and threatening to pass him the 

 first moment he should lose his feet. At the first quarter- 

 pole there was but a length distance between them ; at the 

 half-mile but barely two, while the others, with the exception 

 of Delaware Maid, who was pretty well up, were being trailed 

 off in a most disastrous manner. 



In this order the first heat was won by Whitehall; "the 

 little bay mare," handicapped by the road sulky, whom no one 

 thought would have a ghost of a chance in the. race, being sec- 

 ond ; Delaware Maid, third, while ISTapolean and Hiram were 

 distanced. The two latter being now out of the race, the little 

 bay mare secured a trotting sulky for herself, and the record 

 gives her the three successive heats, the time being 2.55, 2.52, 

 and 2.49, and Delaware Maid being third in each heat. 



The greatest excitement attended the finishing of the third 

 and fourth heats, and when the race was finished the specta- 

 tors advanced and felt the little heroine all over as they could 

 not possibly comprehend how such a little homely scrub could 

 stand the weight and fatigue she had been subjected to, and 

 yet maintain the speed she did. 



This was really her first exploit introducing her to the pages 

 of the Racing Calendar, where she was recorded under the 

 modest name of Flora. It was but little thought by those who 

 placed after her name the mystical figures 2, 1, 1, 1, that she 

 was destined to become the Queen of the trotting world and 

 to render its tablets so illustrious. 



Soon after the above race, " the little bay mare," or Flora 

 Temple as we are now at liberty to call her, passed into the 

 hands of John C, brother of George E. Perrin, for the modest 

 sum of $575, which was more than seven times the sum for 

 which she had been gladly parted with by her former Utica 

 owner some three or four months previously. 



Owing to an accident in her exercises, whereby the sulky 

 hit her heels and caused a runaway, she was not on the turf at 

 all during the season of 1851. 



The following season, 1852, her owner, finding she had re- 



