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to leg them up so that they will not be bothered with 

 a tired feeling on the trip from the distance to the 

 wire. 



A number of trainers of late years have been going 

 to training camps below the frost line during the 

 winter months. In 1929 the most of this group was 

 at Longwood, Florida. Others remained in the north. 

 The latter are of the opinion that work in a cold 

 climate agrees with a horse and will keep him in 

 better form than the perpetual round of summer heat 

 from one year's end to the other. 



It must, however, be admitted that if a trainer 

 has a bunch of two-year-olds he can separate the 

 wheat from the chaff quicker if he can keep them 

 constantly on the move with a little sharp work once 

 or twice a week and do it with more comfort in a 

 warm climate than in sections where there is snow 

 and ice as well as constant changes in the footing, 

 the latter being due to thaws or stormy weather. 



Walter Cox and Ben White represent the two 

 extremes. Cox began training colts while at Granite 

 State Park, Dover, N. H. and continued at Indian- 

 apolis and Goshen, the number of youngsters in- 

 creasing from year to year. Lady Wanetka and Mary 

 Putney graduated from the snow banks. Others fol- 

 lowed until Cox reached the crest of his career among 

 juveniles by bringing out Sam Williams, Hazelton, 

 Fireglow, Walter Dear, Volomite, Miss Woerner, Sir 

 Guy Mac and Guy Day. 



Few people ever saw a better bunch of colts in any 

 stable. All of them raced high in flesh and looked as 



