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But your horse should have five repeats before you 

 start him to win a race, and one of them should be of 

 three heats; the others just mile and repeat. But never 

 give your horse a repeat within five days of a race, or 

 after you start into a campaign. If he trots one race 

 each week, he will not need any repeating, and, while I 

 think of it, I wish to state that there is not a liorse that 

 ever marked the earth that can not be made to giiit^ by 

 overwork. And here is where many horses n-ot possess- 

 ing the the stamina afforded by thoroughbred crosses 

 have gone wrong, the trainer not having the judgment to 

 tell him w^hen to let up in the work. Always work vour 

 horse in the forenoon, when he can ge^ the beriefit of the 

 sun. A horse worked only in the cool of the day will 

 wilt like a mushroom when started in a race in the heat 

 of the afternoon. 



