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how much must be done to make success sure. You must 

 be, as it were, to be more than ordinarily successful, full of 

 the subject : all its conditions and phases must be clear to 

 the mind. Then you will not make mistakes. Never get 

 discouraged by failure. Keep success always before your 

 mind. 



It was by defeats and failures I was led to study tempera- 

 ments, and forced to adopt new principles of subjection, 

 which I was in time able to combine into a system which 

 covers every condition of difficulty. This knowledge I have 

 tried faithfully to impart to you ; and your success must 

 depend in a great measure upon your prudence and the 

 thoroughness of your efforts in applying them. It is only 

 when you rise above the average scale of effort, that achieve- 

 ment is commendable and worthy of honor. You must put 

 thought, tempered with patience and purpose, into your 

 efforts. There must be sobriety and conviction of responsi- 

 bility, that will make you see and feel your highest and truest 

 interest to yourself demands rising above influences which 

 lower and destroy self-respect and manhood. There is no 

 enemy so dangerous as intemperance. The generosity and 

 warm-heartedness of horsemen leads to this ; and just so 

 far as you yield yourself to it, you are planting the seeds of 

 derangement and injury upon your nature from which you 

 must experience keen misfortune. 



TROTTINQ. 



A good walking gait should be the foundation of the 

 training. Continue this walking lesson until the colt is 

 thoroughly gentle and submissive, and has learned to walk 

 with energy. Now gradually let out on a moderate trot, 

 holding up often, gradually letting out a little faster, as the 

 strength and education will bear, but never so as to cause 

 fatigue. Those muscles that are brought most into use are 

 most largely developed, and bear in mind also that a colt 

 has neither the strength or bottom of an old horse, to beai 

 either much exertion, or to be pushed in his gait, and can- 

 not at once act the part of a fast going well trained horse. 



