50 MY horse; my love. 



" Divide a man's age by three and you will under- 

 stand his comparative relation to the horse, in point 

 of attainment. " 



Then a horse comes of age, so to speak, when he 

 is seven years old, as a man does when he is 

 •twenty-one? 



" Certainly, and when he is five he compares to 

 the lad of fifteen, having had such judicious training 

 as befits his youth. When he is three, he knows as 

 much as the boy of nine, and only so much should 

 be expected of him. In the proud owner's haste 

 to show off and develop the fine points of his young 

 horse, he overlooks the fact that his strength is being 

 tried too early, while his bones are yet too soft for 

 hard work. " 



Should not young horses spend the first two or 

 three years of their lives in the open field? 



"Any other idea is a most mistaken one. They 

 should live in the open air until their dentition is 

 complete, so as to draw from the nourishing grass 

 and herbs such tonic as their growing systems 

 need, as well as to develop the full and natural 

 play of their limbs." 



Is it not also a great mistake to test the speed of a 

 young horse too soon? 



" Because a young horse can run very fast for a 

 short distance, it does not follow he must be imme- 

 diately trained to run long distances in a specified 

 time, without suffering from it. It is to this mistake 

 that so many fast and promising horses owe their 

 short lives or crippled condition." 



Therefore, Count, you would say " Make haste 



