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condition. Teach it manners first and then speed, 

 then more manners, and then more speed. The 

 condition is easy, it will usually come itself. To 

 make manners, be gentle and kind, and not always 

 too firm. Treat the colt as you would your son, 

 if he cracks a joke laugh at it. It will be your 

 turn to crack a joke next. To make speed,- never 

 let a colt know how fast he can go. Drive him his 

 best often, but don't let him know it. The way to 

 do this is by letting it step fast for an eighth or a 

 sixteenth; speak to it, tap it with the whip, and 

 let it go for fifty to one hundred feet, and take it 

 right back to the clip it was going before it makes 

 a break. I don't believe in making speed by forc- 

 ing to a break, as many do. Don't let the colt 

 make a hop or a skip. If it does, and continues, 

 take him to the blacksmith. Have perfect bal- 

 ance and a perfect gait. Boot him for protection 

 only and if he should hit himself, don't wait for 

 him to wear his boots out (thinking there are more 

 where yours came from) but take colt to the smith. 

 When you think he can step an eighth in the spring 

 in sixteen seconds, take out your watch on him 

 and if he steps an eighth in twenty or twenty- 

 three seconds he is a good colt. When you hear 

 of a colt stepping an eighth in sixteen seconds the 

 fourth time it was hitched it is usually a lie or 

 they lost track of his workouts. Such talk is 

 misleading to the new trainer and to the owner. 

 Along in June I would work colt two repeats, 



