4:02 HORSE PORTRAITURE. 



week. The mornings that you do not give this work, he 

 can be driven on the road, or slowly on the track, for six 

 or eight miles. In place of the second sweat you can 

 work him now with the long hood on, and after the 

 first mile has been done fast, take him out of the shafts, 

 scrape liim, walk fifteen minutes, and repeat with a two- 

 mile drive. In preparing him for this move, give him 

 half his usual feed at night, half his water with a small 

 lock of hay, put on the muzzle, and only give a quart of 

 grain in the morning. In place of the mash the preced- 

 ing night, feed it after he has been done up, in lieu of the 

 grain that this feed would have consisted of. Should we 

 trot him in a race a month from now and I think that 

 will be good policy, for he is recovering from his breaks 

 admirably, and if he does not find company that is a good 

 deal too fast for him, he will stand a good chance to win 

 the race will do in place of a sweat, and, as I said be- 

 fore, there is no such school for teaching a horse to trot 

 in races, as races themselves. If a trainer even thinks the 

 work of a three in five race is just what a horse needs to 

 bring him to the mark, he would hesitate very much to 

 give it, unless in the actual combat. How many "green 

 horses" have we seen fail to make good the promise their 

 private trials led one to expect ! The race was new ground, 

 and the driver found it out of his power to get them 

 within several seconds as fast as he had often shown them 

 before, with apparent ease. So I always like to make my 

 horses familiar with the place that is going to be the 

 arena where they must display their powers, and if I have 

 a " dark " horse, that I do not want the public to get a line 

 that will be a guide to his capabilities, I try to manage 

 that it shall not be apparent. It is quite as well to win a 

 race by one length as fifty, and people are generally more 

 afraid of a horse that they have never seen go, than one 

 which they have seen win. It is certainly proper that the 



