Training the Trotting Horse. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR. 



When in any field of endeavor, a man achieves that 

 which makes him famous, Ave are not content merely 

 to study what he has accomphshed and how he has 

 accomplished it, but vre are curious to know something 

 of the life and individuality of the man himself. Had 

 it been left to the unobtrusive modesty of Charles 

 Marvin, the record of his life-work would probably 

 not be supplemented by even the brief sketch of his 

 career which is embraced in these pages. In these 

 days when "cheek" so often passes current for ability, 

 it indeed becomes genuine merit to bear itself mod- 

 estly ; and while no trainer of trotting horses has ever 

 approached Charles Marvin in successful achievement, 

 there is not in his character a tinge of egotism, or in 

 any word of his a note of self praise. He undertook 

 the authorship of this book, because he has the faith 

 grounded in over twenty years of practical experience 

 that what we for convenience call the Palo Alto sa^s- 

 tem of training trotting horses is superior to any other 

 practiced, and he felt that it should be described and 

 taught in a book that would prove a standard text- 



