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enough your work will be barren of immediate results, 

 while if you carry it too far you will not only spoil all 

 that is already done but ruin the material that may be 

 the making of a star performer. It calls for the most 

 careful judgment, eternal vigilance and keen discrimi- 

 nation in know in o;- how far to o-q. 



Another thing the reader's attention is directed to at 

 the outset. Xo cast-iron set of rules can be laid down 

 to fit every case. The same medicine will not suit 

 every patient, the same diet and training is not best 

 for all children, and all colts cannot be treated exactly 

 alike. ^Vhile no trainer can fail to increase his skill 

 b}^ studying the experiences of others, ten volumes, will 

 not relieve him from the necessitv of usingf his own 

 brains. Just as every man that was ever born differs in 

 some respects in his mental, moral and physical nature 

 from every other man, so do all horses differ, and from 

 every colt the trainer trains he must learn another 

 lesson. He must study the disposition and the tempera- 

 ment, res])ect the peculiarities and have regard to the 

 physical differences as well, of each of his pupils, And, 

 above all, my friend, do not go about your work like a 

 slave drivei^ ; do not conduct yourself as though the 

 colts were unfeeling, unintelligent brutes. Treat them 

 for what they are — the noblest of God's creations after 

 the human family. If you are a manly man you treat 

 children with respect for their age and their undisci- 

 plined minds — you show them the gentler side of your 

 nature. Eemember then that the colts are the children 

 of their kind. Thev are delicate and their feelinci:s 

 more sensitive, and their dispositions more easily 

 spoiled than those of the full grown horse. Firmness 



