THE EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG 



will require more fast work and more brushing. It 

 Is pretty hard work to strike the happy medium in 

 working a three-year-old, and give him just the right 

 kind of work, neither too much nor too little. If 

 you are getting him ready to start in big stakes, he 

 will have to have a lot of both slow and fast heats, 

 or heats with fast work part of the mile. A three- 

 year-old colt that has been worked as a two-year-old, 

 that has been wintered well and Is sound, and has 

 speed, will stand almost as much work as an aged 

 horse, and rest out of his work much sooner. One 

 thing I will say in regard to keeping them sound — 

 shoe as light as possible; if you have to have any 

 weight, use it in the shape of a toe-weight, then your 

 colt will not have to carry it in his slow work. Also 

 teach your colt to trot with as short a toe as you can. 

 Once in a while you will find one that will have to 

 have a fairly good length of toe, and cannot go with- 

 out it. The same in regard to weight, but as a rule, 

 if you begin with them at the start, you will not have 

 much trouble in teaching them to go light and with a 

 short toe. 



^' Training under the above system, I have given 

 more than one hundred horses and colts records." 



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