iiiles; what I mean is, that the great majority 

 of them could perform meritoriously ; and had 

 their early treatment, shoeing, training and 

 general management been better and more in- 

 telligenth^ conducted there is no question that 

 many horses that are classed in the records as 

 mediocre would have attained championship, 

 or near-championship honors. On the other 

 hand, there are, no doubt, hundreds of others 

 in the standard list that would never have been 

 known had it not been for the lessons taught 

 them in the first two or three years of their 

 existence. Consequently, too much emphasis 

 cannot be put on the importance of intelli- 

 gent treatment of the youngsters in every 

 respect, for the little fellow in the kindergar- 

 ten today is the big fellow on the Grand Cir- 

 cuit tomorrow. 



The great interest that has been manifested 

 bv all classes of harness horsemen in the 

 youngsters of late, an interest that is con- 

 stantly increasing, I am pleased to be able to 

 say, and the hundreds of enquiries I have 

 received from all parts of the country since 

 I have been on The Horse World staflf, for a 

 work devoted to this subject, prompted me to 

 write this little book. If you are looking for 

 something elaborate, something couched in 

 collegiate language, and clothed in a mantle 

 of high-brow verbiage, you would better draw 

 and go to the stable, because you are outside 

 the money right now. What there is of this 

 is written in plain English, for two reasons: 

 It is intended more for the beginners, the 



