CHAPTER XIII. 



Work a horse with the watch, but don't try to make him beat it — Doble and 

 Goldsmith Maid— The pacer Johnston never worked out at top speed — 

 One speeding each week is ordinarily sufficient — Preparations for a race — 

 Deportment on the track — How to talk to the judges— Laying up heats an 

 important matter — How to drive after the word is giveu — A case of bad 

 judgment in a postponed race — Shipping horses from point to point— The 

 training and management of trotting stallions. 



In working your horse with the watch never try to make 

 the horse beat the watch; that is the hardest task ever set 

 for a horse — or in other words do not try to see how fast you 

 can drive him in his work. People imagine, when you have 

 had some very fast horse in your stable, that you must have 

 some day given liim a wonderful trial. The best mile I ever 

 saw Doble drive Goldsmith Maid, was 2:16, and when he did 

 that he had her especially prepared for it. The best mile 

 ever I gave Johnston in his work was 2:13|. I never saw 

 Hickok drive St. Julien in his exercise better than 2:15. I 

 never heard of such men as Golden, Jock Bowen, Turner and 

 that class of drivers giving their horses any wonderful trials. 

 You may ask: " How do you know your horse is able to trot 

 a good mile?" A good baker ought to be able to tell, 

 whether his bread is baked or not without having to cut it 

 up and put butter on and eat it to find out. It is the same 

 with a horse trainer— he should know about how well his 

 horse can go without stringing him out all the way. Every 

 time you drive a trotter a mile against the watch as fast as 

 he can go you discourage the horse. If he is the least bit 

 out of condition you are liable to injure him permanently. 

 If you keei> repeatedly trying him and stringing him out to 



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