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before in getting ready for the next. It is proper now to 

 reduce his work ; for if he is kept at it, just as he was before 

 his first engagement, he is almost certain to lose speed. 

 The condition is about there, and wliat it lacks may be 

 looked for to follow the means taken to increase the speed 

 after the first race. The work is to be less in quantity, but 

 witli numerous short brushes and merry rallies, leaving the 

 horse in good heart and high spirits, thinking well of him- 

 self, and on good terms with his daily training-ground, the 

 course. 



Should the race for which the horse is in preparation be 

 three-mile heats, the work must be longer and not so sharp 

 as for mile heats, three in five, and two-mile-heats. The 

 lasting qualities are to be developed by more jogging, and 

 not so many spurts of speed in comparison. Still, the work 

 is not to be so slow and monotonous and extended as to take 

 speed aw^ay. Many a race is won by a good brush on the 

 stretch, which would have been lost if the speed had been 

 dogged out with a great deal of walking and slow jogging. 

 I have found it so often the case that a large amount of 

 slow work has knocked oft the speed, that I deem one of 

 them incompatible with the other, and look upon this as an 

 established principle. Therefore, there are to be lively 

 spurts from time to time, wlien the preparation is for three- 

 mile heats, and the jogging is not to be carried on so as to 

 take out the heart and inclination of the horse for these 

 spurts. To produce the horse full of sta3^ing condition, and 

 with all his speed, is the proper aim of the training art. To 

 have him capable of going on for a long while, but deficient 

 of his know^n rate of speed, is not art; and to have him 

 speedy for a little way, but unable to stay the. distance 

 which he is known to be able to endure, is not art either. 



For the three-mile race a longer time will be taken in 

 training than for one of mile-heats, three in five, unless a 

 shorter engagement has intervened ; and, when the horse is 

 brought to the post for the long race, he ought to be as near 



