APPENDIX, 183 



CHAPTEE I. 



DIFFERENT KINDS OF TRAINERS. 



A few words of advice to parties having horses they 

 desire to have trained, ma}' perhaps be of benefit to some 

 of my readers. There are two classes of trotting horse 

 trainers, viz. : One class, is looking all the time for a 

 campaigner, to take out and trot in races, and are never 

 satisfied to remain permanently, in any locality and 

 w^ork at developing green horses. This class, generally, 

 in the spring, set out ostensibly, with the intention of 

 handling trotters at your track, and to remain all the 

 season, but by the first of July they will manage some 

 way, to get two or three horses, whose owners are not 

 proof against " wind," and they will be found after this 

 date, tiying to break up the country by winning what 

 money there is in circulation. They generally struggle 

 through the season, if the owner and backer holds out ; 

 but November will usually find them with a linen duster, 

 split up the back, in lieu of an overcoat. 



I have known a number of this class of trainers, who 

 were really competent men, and good drivers and condi- 

 tioners, but had not the tenacity of purpose, to withstand 

 the temptation, to undertake a campaign with horses, 

 until they struck a horse, having the capacity to go out 

 and icin. These men get uneasy, after remaining located 

 a short time, and seem to feel that they are wasting their 

 existence, and will not give horses they may have in their 

 charge, (that they know will not be campaigned) the 

 attention, and pains, they know so well how to bestow. 

 There is another class of men, who prefer to locate 

 somewhere permanently and, train. They may occa- 

 sionally be seen at fairs with some of their horses, but 

 very many of this class are incompetent, lacking experi- 

 ence, and judgment, as well as pluck, to drive a horse 

 out in company, or anywhere else. They will (many of 



