CARE AXD KEEPING. 2-17 



pany. Xeither one can do himself justice while he 

 is fiofhtino^ the other, and the divided house will come 

 to orief. Work to be of anv benefit will be taken in 

 good temper on both sides. So the ideal trainer must 

 not only have the faculties of observation, and the 

 penetrativeness to discover the horse's peculiarities of 

 nature, but he must have the elastic tact to accom- 

 modate himself to them. 



I have now explained, at some length, the principles 

 of our educational track work, and have indicated how 

 a colt may be trained from infancy until he is a horse 

 ready for the finislnng touches in preparation for the 

 fray. It would be very pleasant for the writer and 

 the reader if a book could be written that, like a 

 cookery recipe, tells you all at once how to do every 

 thing so that you can begin work when you begin 

 reading, and do the job according to directions as you 

 read on. But there are so man}^ things that have to 

 be done in their order every day, in horse training, 

 that all the strings cannot be threaded at once. So, 

 before we take up the preparation of the colt for races, 

 and his management in them, we will leave the track 

 and go to the barn, where it will be in order to give 

 some attention to his care and keeping. 



