The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-23

The New York Tribune of Friday gives
the following account of the trot between
Flora Temple and Ethan Allen, which came
off on the Union Course, L. l., on the 9Th !;
Flora won the pole, and after making
one score the horses got off we'll together.
Flora has bad habit of breaking at the
turn, from the fact that she has heen accus.
toned to being kept in the stable opposite,
and although she passed the dangerous
point on a square tr0t yesterday, and all
thought she was going to escape for once,
she went up after rounding the turn and
lost quite two lengths by the accident
The team went on in the even tenor of
their way-Ethan trotting a magnificent
stroke, and Socks galloping along with
matches grace--until they had got some
rods down the stretch, when Flora made
rally and crept full length up to the team.
Jones seeing this, Ethan was urged to still
faster pace, and the contestants rushed along
at such headlOng rate that first Ethan
and then Flora were carried off their feet,
and the mare in few leaps had rushed to
the front, and made gap of full two lengths
between her and the team as they passed
the half mile post in LILLY. 1t was at this
time that Ethan showed some little wiling
ness to run away, but Horace got him down
to bis trot so soon that many spectators
could hardly have noticed the break at all.
When she rounded the last turn and entered
the home stretch, Flora, although she had
lost the two lengths of lead, was SO close
to the team that victory seemed, to all who
recollected her favorite scoring game, cer>
tainly hers, but Ethan fairly outfooted her,
and forced her to such exertions to get home
ahead that she broke up at the second dis
lance pele, and so badly, that the team
crossed the score full length ahead, win.
ming the heat in 2:24A.
Second Heat.-The betting which had
previously been to against the mare,
now changed to 100 to 80, Is, and even 20,
but there was miserably languid market
at such tempting odds. The herses got the
word on the first attempt, the start being
very even-Flora if anything tri1e 10 the
lead. After rounding the turn Flora made
single skip but no break, but, probably
because of her being on the outside, the
team got round first, and before entering
the back stretch showed a length ahead.
The quarter was passed in 361a, all going
at first rate speed. Down the stretch they
went, the team not more than a length
ahead. and the mare trailing after them with
splendid pluck. There was no break or
skip as on they swept around the second
and third turns, and entered the straight
side. The trotting now became really
splendid, and both the horses were urged to
their utmost speed. Ethan was seen to
lean of and bear hard on the pole strap,
while Floras trot was so square and beau
tiful that her friend hoped she might gain
enough advantage to get home first. But
the fates ordained otherwise, for the team
kept the lead throughout, and swept past
the stand length ahead, winning the heat
in 2:22. Ethan never left his legs once
from start to score, and the heat was as
fairly and as prettily contested as any we
ever saw.
Third Heat.-There was no more show
of betting at any odds, every one seeming
satisfied that Flora stood no chance 10 that
chilly atmosphere of beating Ethan in bis
double.team rig. They got the word as be.
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had mere trifle of lead. She did not break
at the turn, nor indeed did she leave her
feet during the heat. The team showed in
front length at the quarter, and although
Flora hung to them with uuAinching cour-
age, they lost only quarter of length,
and that was not until they were coming
home. The relative positions of the horses
up to this time had scarcely varied an inch,
and they moved around the Course as if actu-
ated by single impulse. The qHsrter was
made in 1914, the half in LIZ, 4 sshe mile
in 2:2214, the whole heat beiI ike its
predecessor, magnificent ezhSstion of
trotting on the part of both horses. Flora's
game seemed to have been to hang to the
team until they entered the home stretch,
and then to conquer by grand final rally,
and one OF her terrific bursts of speed. But
Ethan's driver knew as much as McMann
in this respect, and while holding his team
just enough in hand to coax and humor the
mare, he called on them when the real tug
of war commenced, and putting Ethan to
his best, fairly outfooted Flora, and came
home winner of the heat and race. The