CAIfE AM) TRAINING OF TROTTERS AND TACERS. 



Table of Contents. 



Chapter I.— The Suckling Colt 7 



First milk — treatment for diarrhea — in pasture — feeding: pad- 

 doeli — mannering the colt. 



Chapter II. — The Weanling Colt 19 



Feeding — halter breaking — leading beside ponj' — booting — bit- 

 ting — ground breaking — hitching to cart — shoeing. 



Chapter III. — Making Speed With Yearlings 3] 



Pulling — how Airdale, 1, 2:15%. was trained — Peter Volo, 1, 

 2:1!)— Hester C, 1. 2:21 V^— Wilbur Lou. 1. 2:19%— Miss 

 Stokes— Adbell, 2:23— Norlaine, 2:311/2— Hinda Rose, 2i30%— 

 Edna the Great. 2:29i4— Palo Alto system. 



Chapter IV. — Preparing for Two-Year-Old Futurities 56 



How Murphy trained Peter Volo. 2. 2:041/2. and Native Belle. 

 2, 2:07%— Arion, 2, 2:10%— Justice Brooke. 2. 2:09i/o. and his 

 diary— Axtell, 2. 2:23. 



Chapter V.— Three-Year-Olds 74 



Working between races — training of Peter Volo. 2:03i/2 — Colo- 

 rado E., 2:04%— General Watts. 2:06%— Fantasy. 2:0S% — 

 Sunol. 2 :0Si/i— Axtell. 2:12. 



Chapter VI. — Shoeing Colts 95 



First trip to blacksmith — dressing hind feet — hard frog un- 

 natural — change? in gait — natural dressed foot. 



Chapter VII, — Shoeing of 101 Famous Colts 114 



Comparison of shoes us^mI on the Tamous colt trotters and 

 pacers of 1911. 1912. 19 3 and 1914. 



Chapter VIII. — Six Principal D-f ects in Gait 124 



Chapter IX. — Types of Shoes 138 



The princiial styles of shoes illustrated. 



Chapter X, — Feeding 143 



Chapter XI. — Grooming a Hoise on Race Day 153 



Chapter XII.— Miscellany 162 



Trainer at a. veterinary college — Walter Cox on warming up 

 for a race — how yearlings are trained at Allen Farm — what we 

 did on the farm during October — how to stop pulling — public 

 trainers — masturliatinn. 



