210 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



come to adjust his check-rein. The check is a support, 

 not a curbing arrangement to twist a horse's head and 

 neck out of their natural position. If 3^ou stud\^ his 

 balance and his action here, you will not be a]:>t to 

 make many mistakes in "hanging" him in harness, 

 shoes and sulky. 



Another very important point, and especially to 

 those that have many youngsters to train, is the fact 

 that the miniature track enables you to select those 

 of your colts that will best repay the labor and expense 

 of training. Let me work a lot of colts on this track 

 for three months and I will pick out the stars, just as 

 surelj^ as the^^ can be known three years later. All 

 our famous youngsters distinguished themselves on the 

 miniature track. They gave the promise of their future 

 greatness there. Sunol and Palo Alto, Manzanita and 

 Bonita, Hinda Kose and all the Beautiful Bells family 

 have been stars of the kindergarten, just as the}^ were 

 afterward stars on the sterner battle-field of the turf. 

 And this fact proves more than any other the truth of 

 what I have contended — that this is above all the best 

 natural method of training young trotters no^v extant. 

 If it were not a natural system it Avould not prove so 

 true an index of the capacit}^ which the horse is after- 

 ward destined to exliibit. 



