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it around the body ; put another ordinary stable blanket over 

 that ; keep it on your horse, in the stall, from one to one and 

 a half hours. You will find you hav^e removed more flesh 

 than you could have done with a ten-mile drive on the road 

 or track, and have also saved the feet and legs of your horse. 

 This may be also used on an}^ part of the body or neck with 

 good success. 



As your colt gets more muscle and strength his work 

 may be gradually increased, but remember at all times to drive 

 your colt within himself, as that keeps up his courage and de- 

 sire to do better, whereas, if you drive him to his full speed 

 every time you work him, he will soon become tired and dread 

 to go to the track. I have seen colts and horses that would 

 act as though they would rather jump down a well than go 

 inside the track gates ; if at the same time you drive them 

 off on the road they would go and act well, in fact, act 

 natural, when, if you should track them that day they would 

 act sour, break, and many times be almost unmanageable. I 

 would advise, if at any time your colt seems reluctant to go 

 on the track, to keep away from there for a few days, perhaps 

 a week, give him his work on the road. I have seen horses 

 go better than they ever did before when there had been 

 three or four days of rainy weather, so it was impossible to 

 get them on the track or hardly out of the stable ; perhaps 

 they had a little walk under the shed only during the time. 

 In order to prove this argument is correct, that too much track 

 work is sometimes a damage, I will cite an experience I had 

 with the chestnut horse Bonner, record 2:23, and Great liast- 

 ern, record 2:1 8|-, in the year 1874. Eugene Root, of 

 Syracuse, N. Y., had Black Frank, record 2:20, afterwards given 

 to him by me, and Norwood, record 2:30, owned by S, B. 

 Larned, of Syracuse ; Amos Gillett was on his staff as man- 

 ager of these two horses. We were both preparing for the 

 Grand Circuit on the same track, but in different stables. My 

 horses were rather high in flesh ; Amos used to remark that 

 they looked more like market horses than trotters. We both 



