DAILY PKOGKAMME. 203 



CHAPTEE XYII. 



WORKING OX THE MINIATUKE TEACK THE DAILY PER- 

 FORMANCE AMOUNT OF WORK GIVEN IT MUST NOT 



BE EXCESSIVE THE COLt's CONFIDENCE TO BE 



RETAINED HITCHING WORKING WITH A RUNNER — 



AN UNNATURAL METHOD OF TRAINING BALANCE AND 



STRIDE — THE BENEFIT OF THE TRAINING PADDOCK 



DEVELOPING SPEED, WIND AND MUSCLE NATURALLY. 



ISTow you have giv^en the colt his first lesson, and you 

 naturally desire to lay out for yourself and him a pro- 

 gramme which, in your fond dreams, is to be a path- 

 way to success. How much work are you to give him? 

 How often is he to be worked, and how long at a time? 

 AYhat are the special benefits derived from this style 

 of training ? It requires more equipment in the way 

 of a track, and it is, at the outset, more costly than 

 working a colt with a runner, and what better is it ? 

 All these and a thousand more questions you will ask 

 yourself, and I fancy 3^ou are asking them of me as 

 you read. I cannot answer them all at a single dash, 

 but will try and deal with each as it naturally comes 

 up as we go along. 



We have a great many colts to work, and to show 

 the reader our '^ order of business " for a day, we will 

 trace them through the daily routine at Palo Alto. It 

 is simple enough. In the morning they are cleaned ofi^ 



