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at that time owned Lady Brooks, and_ these mares he drove at 

 Newport the season of 1854, at that celebrated sea-side resort. 



Late in the season Flora was matched against the brown 

 gelding, Mac, for $1,000, mile heats, three in five, in harness. 

 Mac was a Maine bred horse, a descendant of Maine Messenger, 

 and was considered at that time as good as the best. But on 

 the 5th of October Flora beat him with ease in three straight 

 heats. On the 18th of the same month, October, 1854, Flora 

 trotted a match for $2,000, mile heats, three in five, in harness, 

 against Jack "Waters, a bay gelding by Old Abdallah. This 

 race was on the Centerville course, Flora winning with ease. 



Flora Temple was then purchased by James McMann. 

 Her first appearance as the property of her new owner was at 

 the Union course on May 7, 1855, in a match for $2,000, mile 

 heats, three in five, against the famous mare, Sontag. It was 

 to wagons and drivers of 300 pounds. 



Sontag was a gray mare by Harris's Hambletonian. Son- 

 tag won the race in three straight heats, best time 2.31. 

 Flora was next matched to trot twenty miles in an hour to 

 a wagon for $5,000. The only horse that had ever accom- 

 plished this feat at all was Trustee, and his performance was in 

 harness ; consequently, this was considered at the time by the 

 best judges a foolhardy match for her ; and it proved to be, 

 for she lost it. 



Flora's next race was at Boston, Mass., over the Cambridge 

 course against the black gelding Lancet — a son of Vermont 

 Black Hawk — for a match of $3,000, mile heats in harness. 

 She beat him in two heats. This was June 26, 1855. On July 

 6th she trotted a race in two-mile heats to wagon with Sontag 

 for $2,000. In this race she was driven by Hiram Woodruff, 

 and won easily in two heats; time, 5.07, 5.07. 



Flora's next race was against Lady Franklin, a roan mare 

 from Maine, two-mile heats, to wagons, for $2,000. This was 

 over the Centerville course, September 11th ; Flora won the 

 race in two heats ; best time, 5. Hi. 



Flora's last race of the season of 1855 took place over the 



