DEVELOP SPEED IN HORSES. 15 



harness ; but I believe that a horse is safer in the hands 

 of the trainer, hooked to a light wagon or sulky, than he 

 is in the care of a boy doing his walking work out of 

 sight of the barn. You may commence by jogging and 

 walking a little, say five or six miles (in the forenoon is the 

 best time) for the first week or ten days. Ten quarts of oats 

 in three feeds, of four quarts in the morning, two at noon, 

 and four again at night, with some hay, ought to be enough 

 for him, and you ought to see him begin to improve in 

 the way he does his work as well as in appearance. By 

 this tune he will be in shape to send along a little, and 

 you ought to increase his work a little, and likewise the 

 amount of oats, say to twelve quarts per day; but if you 

 observe that he don't like the increased amount of work, 

 wait a week more. By this time the muscles must have 

 tone enough in them to carry him along on a good road 

 a ten-mile-an-hour clip, for four or five miles, without 

 much apparent fatigue. But don't begin to brush him 

 yet; he wants to be able to jog his ten miles out in an 

 hour easy before you commence to call on him. If he is 

 the horse we think he is, he will soon commence to do his 

 brushing himself. And here is where you want to use 

 judgment; right here is where one-half the good horses 

 are ruined. If he now commences to take hold of the bit 

 and go away at a rapid clip, steady him carefully, and 

 take him back before he commences to tangle or tire. 

 The chances are at this time, if you let him go on and 

 trot over himself and go infeo a break, he will hit himself 

 somewhere, and it will set him back in his training weeks, 

 and perhaps spoil him. Don't let him go to a break* 

 trotters nowadays don't leave their feet often when they^ 

 Kppt 5.-.an.- tK£»y don't have time. 



