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ligned for not making a win?ier out of some animal utterly 

 destitute of the first element of a race horse (except in 

 the mind of his owner). If you set out to develop a trot- 

 ter, your object, I presume, will be the dollars and cents 

 that will accrue as speed is acquired by the horse. If 

 you have not that object in view you will never make a trot- 

 ter. I have never known a first-class trotter or race horse 

 of any description, brought out by a trainer, just for the 

 fun of the thing; amusement is not a sufficient incentive. 

 As I observed at the outset, do not trot or pace your 

 horse for any one's amusement, or your own even, if he 

 don't need speeding; great harm has befallen horses in 

 showing them to people who had no interest in seeing 

 them go, but idle curiosity. 



I have endeavored in the foregoing pages, to give the 

 information the amateur horseman would naturally crave 

 upon the subject of developing speed, at the outset of his 

 career as a trainer. Perhaps there \\i\\ never be a man 

 read this book but what knows, or thinks he knows 

 more than the writer, but that is nothing, there is 

 no subject that the average man, and \voman even, think 

 they are as competent to grapple with as The Horse, and 

 if you desire to arouse a man's antagonism, tell him he 

 doesn't know anything about a horse. If I have succeeded 

 in interesting you, reader, to the extent, that you will seek 

 to upset any of the theories or practices laid down in 

 this work, I am satisfied. There is a great amount of 

 pleasure and satisfaction in the companionship of horses 

 if they are good ones, but if you possess the knowledge 

 and discernment that will enable you, not only to select 

 a good one from among ten thousand, but to develop him 

 in speed and money value also, you combine pleasure 

 with profit. Many a horse to-day is performing menial 

 service that had he in his youth been taken in hand by a 

 thorough horseman, would have had his name enrolled 

 in the 2-30 list. JS/o horse C2in ever distinguish himself 

 without an opportunity and the assistance of a compe- 

 tent trainer, and knowledge is the pre-requisite of the 

 trainer's qualifications. 



