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developed ; after you can go fast for a quarter the fast 

 mile will come all right. Speed makes gameness. The 

 horse that goes within his limit will always outlast the 

 horse that is on his tip-toes from wire to Avire. The 

 case of Manzanita and Patron at St. Louis in 1886 is in 

 point. She could trot a quarter that day, beyond 

 doubt, better than thirty-two seconds — she could cer- 

 tainly have gone to the half close to 1:05. Going to 

 the half in 1:08 so distressed Patron that he was a 

 quickly beaten horse. He could not live with her that 

 day any distance from "a panel of fence" to five miles, 

 simply because she could trot him to a standstill with- 

 out being all strung out, and each heat in the race was 

 easy work for her, while he was driven out to the last 

 inch. 



It is not well to brush the horse always over the 

 same ground, for he will then learn to stop at certain 

 places on the track. Colts are quick of perception and 

 retentive in memory, and when they find out they 

 always start at one place and stop at one place they 

 are apt to do it of themselves. In such cases the 

 remedy is eas}^ When you find a colt getting into the 

 habit of wanting to stop, or slacken speed at a certain 

 place, make it a point to send him past that point at a 

 lively gait. You can easily do this by shifting your 

 brushing ground — sometimes working on one side of the 

 track, sometimes on another, and occasionally giving 

 him a breather around tlie turn and through the 

 stretch. Another annoying little habit a colt is apt to 

 get into is to try to turn out every time he passes the 

 gate leading off the track. The same principle will 

 cure him of this. When speeding never pull up just 



