204 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



gently and well, watered and fed, and turned out in 

 the paddock. In our paddock we have a long rack 

 filled with hay, and there are also watering facilities, 

 so that the colts can eat and drink at leisure. We 

 have, it will of course be understood, this work con- 

 fined to a department, with a superintendent and force 

 of men and boys who have nothing to do with any 

 other work than looking after the youngsters in their 

 primary school. After all have had the morning atten- 

 tions above indicated, they are, one by one, worked in 

 the miniature track and turned out in a paddock. After 

 all have been worked we let them run in a field of good 

 grass. Meanwhile, their stalls or boxes are cleaned 

 out and bedded, and feed put in. Then, in the evening, 

 the colts are taken up, their feet cleaned out, and then 

 they are turned into their boxes all right for the 

 night. 



When you first begin using the miniature track da 

 not imagine that the colt is the only party concerned 

 that has anything to learn. To make proper use of 

 the track, to reap the best results, to do the greatest 

 good with the least jarring, friction and trouble, you 

 want skill as great as the man that sits in the sulky. 

 True, it is not the same kind of skill exactly, but it 

 requires the same order of judgment. It calls for 

 coolness, watchfulness and thought. To know how 

 far to go without going too far is the great point.' 



You must not tire the colt. Give him a good work- 

 ing (not forgetting that he is just growing out of the 

 days of foalhood, and 3^et far from being a horse), but 

 be very careful that you do not make the work weari- 

 some. You will teach him, as I have said, to take the 



