The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-10
Flora Temple Dead.

Flora Temple, the world renowned
trotter, and the fastest on the turf while
she was in active sporting service, died
lately at the stock farm of her owner.
Mr.. Aristides WEIGH, near Chestnut
Hill. She was foaled in 1916 and bred
by Mr.. Samuel WEIGH, in Oneida county.
n. Y. Her sire was One-eyed Hunter,
who was by Kentucky Hunter, and her
dam was Madam Temple, who was got
by spotted Arabian Horse owned at
that time by Mr.. Horace Terry and
brought from Dutchess county, n. Y.
When four years of age Flora, being re-
garded as willful and unserviceable, was
sold by her owner, a Mr.. Tracy, to Mr..
William 81. Congdon, OF Smyrna, for
thirteen dollars. After passing through
several hands for remarkably small prices
she was purchased for three hundred
and fifty dollars by Mr.. George E. Perrin.
of n. Y, and while with him she be-
came true stopper. Her first regular
appearance on the turf was at the Union
Course, Long Island, in September, 1850,
defeating Whitehall, and five others, in
2:52, 2;55, 2:52, 2:49. In 1853 the most
important part of her career began. In
her trst race at Hunting Park Black
Douglass defeated her, but she turned
the tables in two subsequent races. Her
only defeats were by Tacony, Black
Douglass, and Green Mountain Maid,
but her victories included seven over
Tacony alone. The next year Green
Mountain Maid beat her once. The gray
mare Sontag defeated her in 1855, and
she lost twenty mile heat against time
through casting a shoe. After defeating
Tacony, Ethan Allen, and Lancet, in her
contests in the next two years, and hay
ing attained a PA record, Mr.. VIM.
Mcdonald, a wealthy Baltimorean,
bought her for eight thousand dollars,
and thirteen victories crowned the years
record. In 1859 she defeated Ethan
Allen and the great California mare
Princess. The latter won the second
race, but Flora never allowed her any
other revenge. In the race at Kalama-
ZOO, Mich, for two thousand dollars,
against Princess, she made the astonish-
ing time of those days of 2:193, and after
another victory over Princess and Ike
Cook, and at the Union Course, Novem-
Der q. in harness, against George NJ.
Patchen, under saddle, made 2 rs and
2:23, the third heat going to Patchen
because the mare crossed him. The
concluding heat was run after dark, and
although Flora won it was not given
her. The postponed race for the
next day was not run. She de-
feated Ethan Allen at Union Course
November "a. Her victory in the spring
of 1860 over Patchen, at Union Course
in 2:2l, 2:2I, 2:2l3, was said tie be hel
best. Patchen won the two mile race al
Union Course, but she beat him in the
| one mile and two mile races at Philadel
phia, and sgain at Union Course, and
also defeated Brown Dick at Fonda
August Is she won a one thousand five
hundred dollars race over Patchen al
Boston, and also beat Ethan Allen al
Kalamazoo, but failed to beat Dutch
mans time atterWard at New York. She
then made tour with Patchen. In 1861
John Morgan was the only competitor
who offered, and he was beaten in one
/ mile and two mile races, the best time
| being 2;24}. The government confscated
her in 1861 because of her owners seces
sion sympathies. and her trotting day.
were ended. Mcdonald died in 1864
and Mr.. Welch, of Chestnut Hill, bought
her for eight thousand dollars, and be-
last public appearance was at Dubois
| track, when General Grant reviewed the
great totters, Her hind legs failing he,
soon after, she was thenceforth kept 70
| breeding. Times.