The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-01-01

a Subject OF Interest to Very Many
People, and More Especially to the
Sporting Fraternity.
Flora Temple, the world~rcnown-
ed trottor, and the fastest on the
turf while she was in active sport
ing service, died roccntly
at tho stoclv-farm OF hcr owner, Mr..
Aristidcs Welch, near Chestnut
Hill. She was foaled in 1916, and
bred by Mr.. Samuel Welch, in
Oneida county, New York. Her
sire was One-cyed Hunter, who was
by Kentucky Hunter, and hor dam
was Madam Temple, who was got by
aspotted Arabian horse owned, at
that time, by Mr.. Horace Terry,
and brought from Ouch css county
Now York. When four years of
&c Flora, boing regarded as willful
and unscrvicoablc, was sold by her
owner, q Mr.. Tracy to Mr.. William
Fl. Congdon, Of Smyrna, for thirteen
dollars After passing through
several hands for remarkably small
prices, she was purchased for $3.50
by Mr.. George E. Perrin, Of New
York, and while with him she bc>
camo true stopper. Her first
regular appearance on tho turf was
at tho Union Course, Long Island,
in September, 1850, defeating
Whitehall and three others in 2.52,
2.55, 2.52, $50. In 1853 the most
important part of her career began.
In her first race at Hunting Park,
Black Douglass defeated her, but
she turned tho tables in two subso-
quent races. Her only defeats
were by Tacony, Black Douglass
and Green Mountain Maid, but hor
victories included seven over
Tacony alone. Tho next year
Green Mountain Maid beat her
once.
The gray marc Sontag defeated
her in 1855, and sho lost twenty
milo heat against time through
casting shoe. After ,lefoatiny
Tacony, Ethan Allen and lancet, in
her contests in tho next two years,
and having attained a 224I record.
Mr.. William Mcdonald, wealthy
Bnltimoroan, bought her for $S, 900,
and thirteen victories crowned tho
years record. In 1859 she de-
feated Ethan Allen and tho great
California marc Princess. The
latter won tho second race, but
Flora never allowed hor any other
revenge. In the race at kalamazoo,
Mich, for $4,000, against Princess,
she made the astonishing timo for
those days Of 2.102, and after
another victory over Princess and
Ike Cooke, and at the Union Course,
November 81, in harness, against
George M. Patchcn under saddle,
made 2.28 and 2.23, the third heat
going to Patchcn because tho marc
crossed him. The concluding heat
was run after dark, md although
Flora won, it was not given to hor.
The postponed race for the next
day was not run. She defeated
Ethan Allen at Union Course, No
vember d. Flor victory in the
spring Of 1860, over Patchcn, at
Union Course, in 2.21, 224, 2.21J,
was said to be her best. Patchon
won the two~milo race ut Union
Course, but sho beat him tho ono
mile and two mile races at Phila~
dclphia, md again ut Union Course,
and also defeated Brown Dick at
Fonda. August % sho won u
$1,000 race over Patchon at Boston,
and also beat Ethan Allen at
Kalamooza, but failed to beat
Dutchman's time afterwards at Now
York. She thon made n tour with
Patchen. In 1861 john Morgan
was the only competitor who offered,
and he was beaten in ono milo and
two mile races, tho best time being
2.244 The government confiscntcd
hor in 1861, because of her owners
secession sympathios, and her
trotting days woro ended. NIcDon-
Rld died in 1864, and Mr.. Wclch, Of
Chestnut Hill, bought her for
$4,000, and her last public appear,
ance was at Dubois track, when
\ General Grant reviewed the great
trotters. Her hind legs failing her
soon after, she was thenceforth
~ kent for breeding,