THE EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG 



that you want to make speed with is long jogging, 

 either on the track or road. They get lazy and care- 

 less, hit their ankles, and get fussy with the check 

 and bit, and lose speed. I never want to get a year- 

 ling tired or leg weary; give him just work enough 

 to take the edge off. When they are two-year-olds, 

 if they have been jogged all winter, which they 

 should be, and are in good condition, I begin 

 by giving them a little faster work, jogging them 

 along a little faster, and at the end of the second 

 or third mile letting them move along for a short 

 distance, an eighth mile, somewhere around a three- 

 minute gait, but am careful not to let them step any- 

 where up to their speed, for some time, say ten days 

 or two weeks. After they have had that kind of 

 work, I begin to give them slow repeats twice a 

 week, each repeat of two heats each, and I govern 

 myself by the amount of speed they could show the 

 fall before as yearlings, of which I keep a record, 

 and I find it a great help to me. If a colt could 

 show, as a yearling, an eighth in 20 seconds, after 

 the above work, I would work him a mile in 3.15 

 or 3.20, evenly rated. The second mile in 3.10, step- 

 ping the last eighth in 21 or 22 seconds, and every 

 week drop him a second or two until he can step 

 a mile in 2.45 or 2.40, with the last eighth around 

 1 8 seconds. I am speaking, now, of working over 

 a good track, where the footing is kept in good shape. 

 When he shows me a mile in 2.40, with the last 

 eighth as good as 18 seconds, I begin a little different 

 work. I give him two slow miles, say on Tuesday 

 in 2.50 and 2.45, evenly rated; on Friday one in 2.50, 

 evenly rated, the second in 2.40, with the last quar- 

 ter in 37 seconds. If he will do it in good shape, and 

 I think he will, the next week, if all goes right, would 



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