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$2,000, mile heats, three in five, in harness, against Jack 

 Waters. This Jack Waters was a bay gelding by Old 

 Abdallah. He was about fifteen two, — a long-tailed horse. 

 He belonged to Mr. Ben Prince, and afterwards went to 

 California. Jack was very fast, but he was a delicate-con- 

 stitutioned horse ; whereas Flora was steel and whalebone, 

 and nothing could make her give out. They trotted on the 

 Centreville Course, and she beat him in three heats with ease. 

 Time, 2,33. 2,39. 2,37. 



Flora Temple now changed hands again. Mr. James 

 Irving bought her, and intended to use her solely for trotting- 

 races. But, like her former owner, he found the demands of 

 business incompatible with his projected operations, ard sold 

 her to Jas. McMann. Her first appearance after she became 

 the property of Mr. McMann was at the Union Course, on 

 the 7th of May, 1855, in a match for $2,000, mile heats, 

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

 wagons and drivers of 3001bs. Sontag was a gray mare by 

 Vermont Hambletonian, who was also called Harris's Ham- 

 bletonian. He was a grandson of Messenger, and stood in 

 the same relation to him that Abdallah did, but not by the 

 same line. The latter came through Mambrino; Harris's 

 Hambletonian through the Hambletonian, of whom I have 

 heard that he was the horse bred by Gen. Coles, of this 

 Island, and run by him as Hambletonian. Of course all 

 these horses preceded the Hambletonian of our day, for 

 whom the name seems to have been adopted from the other 

 branch of the Messenger family. None of them are related, 

 except through distant collaterals, to the English horse 

 Hambletonian, who beat Diamond in one of the greatest 

 matches that ever was run in England, over the Beacon 

 Course. But in one point they all resemble him, — they 

 were large, strong, bony horses, and so was he ; so much so, 

 indeed, that the jockey who rode little Diamond exclaimed, 

 as I have heard, " This looks like a race between a mare 

 and her sucking colt.'' 



