238 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



CLIMATIC CONDITIONS THE TRACK-WORK OF THE THREE- 

 YEAR-OLD THE SPEED-MAKING BRUSHES — SPEED WINS 



RACES MANZANITA AND PATRON BRUSH AT DIFFER- 

 ENT PLACES ON THE TRACK STOPPING AT SPOTS AND 



ITS REMEDY AlVIOUNT OF WORK GIVEN WORKING 



TWICE A DAY WHEN NECESSARY ANOTHER CAUTION 



AGAINST OVERDOING IT A TIRED HORSE RIPE FOR 



BREAK-DOWN THE ERROR OF PERSISTENTLY DRIVING 



FAST MILES WORKING MATURE HORSES WORK DIF- 

 FERS ONLY IN DEGREE — EXCESSIVE REDUCTION CON- 

 DITION PECULIARITIES TO BE STUDIED. 



The training of your colt will necessarily be affected 

 by the climate in which you live. Our best time for 

 work in California is in the fall and the winter-spring, 

 barring the rainy season. Our summers are so diy — 

 the grass burned up and the tracks hard — that it is a 

 rather trying time on horses. The blood of a horse in 

 training (eating as he does mainly food that is of a 

 rather heating nature), as well as his legs and feet, is 

 harder to keep just right in a dry summer than in the 

 seasons when a feed of grass will regulate and cool the 

 stomach, and a walk in the dew will cool the legs and 

 feet. 



In the East, and especially in the North, it is some- 

 times difficult to frive a horse sufficient exercise in win- 



