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mile heats, three in five, in harness. The mare won in 

 four heats, the second being a dead heat; and the best 

 time was 2m. 28 Js. On the 15th of September, she was in 

 the oak-opening country again, among her friends and 

 admirers at Kalamazoo. At that place, on the 16th of 

 September, she beat Ethan Allen for the purse of $2,000, 

 mile heats, three in five, in harness. Flora won in three 

 straight heats, the best of which was the last — 2m. 233. 



On and about the 24th of September, there was a great 

 gathering of turfmen in New York. The four-mile heat 

 sweepstakes then pending to be run on the Fashion Course, 

 in which Planet, Congaree, and Daniel Boone were engaged, 

 had brought gentlemen here from all over the Union, — 

 from Virginia and Maryland and the Carolinas; from 

 Alabama, Louisana, and Mississippi ; from Kentucky and 

 Tennesee ; and from the great rising States of the North- 

 west. That race did not amount to much : for Daniel 

 Boone hit himself at exercise, and was unable to start ; and 

 Congaree was not in condition ; so the Virginian stable, the 

 chief owner of which was Major Thomas Doswell, a man 

 entitled to great respect, obtained a very easy triumph. 



The day before the race was run, I had the pleasure of 

 entertaining many of the turfmen at my house, as they 

 had come over to the south side of the Island to see Flora 

 Temple and Patchen trot two mile heats, in harness, on the 

 Centreville Course. The mare was the favorite at about a 

 hundred to sixty. Patchen had been resting since their 

 trot at Boston ; while Flora had been tc* Michigan and back, 

 and had defeated Ethan Allen. Nevertheless, she was the 

 favorite at these long odds, and her condition was the best ; 

 yet she was just upon the point of being overmarked by so 

 much work and travel. On the day before she had tired at 

 her work, and nothing but her wonderful capacity of com- 

 ing round quickly made her fit to trot the next day. At the 

 start in the first heat, Patchen took the lead ; and at the 

 half-mile pole, in Im. lis., he was two lengths and a half 



