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motion. To be on the safe side, although if they are 

 set at the right angle there 

 is really little clanger, 

 round off the edges of the 

 posts, so that should the 

 colt by any mishap come 

 in contact with them he 

 will not be cut. I have 

 seen colts that w^ere going 

 fast and trying to stop 

 and turn suddenly, some- 

 times throw" themselves 

 under the rail, and in such 

 a slip of course a leg may 

 be struck. But owing to 

 the softness of the track 

 it is really very rare with 

 us for a colt to sustain any 

 injur}" in the training pad- 

 dock, either by falling, 

 slipping, striking, or strain- 

 ing. 



I would not advise any 

 breeder to build a smaller 

 track than our covered 

 training paddock. One a 

 trifle larger would be bet- 

 ter. The other diagram 

 is of a lai'ge open-air pad- 

 dock. We work our young- 

 sters almost wholly in the diagram b— training-paddock— dis- 



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covered paddock, and only 50^ pee^. 



