CHAPTER VI. 



Working Colt or Horse on Snow Sometimes Great Improvement 

 Over Track Work— Their Care and Management in Winter — 

 Case Cited, Wm. Kearnev, 2:20i2— If a Colt is Good-Gaited 

 AND Well-Bred— If He Don't Trot, Do Not Get Discouraged, 

 But Persevere— Case Cited, Flora F. , 3:24 '4— Treatment of 

 Colt After a Winter's Wo^rk— His Work at Three Years' Old — 

 Changes Necessary- Look to His Teeth— If Lips Peel, Cover 

 Bit With Pork Rind — Changing Feed Sometimes Beneficial — 

 Booting Very Necessary — A. B. Smith's Rochester, N. Y., Horse 

 Goods Depot— Manaciement of Mares During the Breeding 

 Period, Also Stallions— Use Stallion Support — Management 

 and Driving Colt His First Race — Grooms — Loading and Ship- 

 ping IN Cars— A Driver Should Attend to His Horse at All 

 Times — Management of a Horse in Training— Jane R. King— 

 Almont. 



To return to the colt. If in his two-year-old form he 

 don't show much speed but is good-gaited and stays sound 

 and has an expectation of speed, as he came from a family of 

 speed producers, let him up in the fall, (say until snow falls, if 

 you are in the North). Then put your shoes on and com- 

 mence to use him, as I have had young horses improve faster 

 to a sleigh than any other way. The change of scenery, soft- 

 ness of the snow path, lightness of the weight, as a sleigh runs 

 easy, difference in the shoeing, as you have to use a calk many 

 times well sharpened. I have had them improve more in a 

 month on the snow than in three months on the road or track. 

 In the case of the bay horse VVm. Kearney, record now 2:20|-, 

 T bought him about July 1st, he was partly broken to harness, 

 and was four years old, I finished breaking him and drove 

 him considerable ; he showed no speed, that is to say, not bet- 

 ter than a four-minute gait. About the last of August I 

 turned him out, and it being a nice warm fall, I let him run 

 until about the middle of November, when I brought him in, 

 put his shoes on and commenced to use him. In about two 



