EDITOR'S PREFACE. 



Although the title page of this book is perhaps a 

 sufficient preface, a word as to its origin and prepara- 

 tion is due the reader. 



For pubhshing tlie book no apology is required. 

 Whether it will fill a '' long-felt want" or not is for the 

 public to decide ; but that the want exists no one can 

 doubt. 



What the Palo Alto system of training has accom« 

 plished is the best guarantee of its excellence. The 

 system under which are developed animals to break 

 the world's record at all ages, from one year old to four 

 years old, speaks for itself. In common with many 

 others, I have long recognized in Charles Marvin the 

 greatest of trotting-horse trainers, or perhaps I should 

 say educators. He seemed peculiarly the genius of 

 his profession. His friends reasoned that a book on 

 training was wanted — and who so fit to write it as the 

 master trainer ? Mr, Marvin is a modest man, and it 

 was only in deference to the repeated urging of his 

 friends that he consented, with the assistance of an 

 editor, to undertake the work. 



