CHAPTER XIII. 



ADVICE TO THE INEXPERIENCED —JOGGING — FEEDING 

 AND PREPARING HORSE FOR RACES — BITS AND 

 CHECKS — CARING FOR HORSE DURING RACE— USE 

 OF REMEDIES FOR DIFFERENT AILMENTS— IMPOR- 

 TANCE OF KEEPING STALLS CLEANSED. 



THIS chapter is intended for the benefit of the 

 inexperienced. A man to be a successful trainer 

 and driver must be a diligent student during 

 his whole business life, and should never allow himself 

 to think that he has arrived at that state of perfection 

 where there is nothing more for him to learn. Success 

 will not always crown his efforts, however careful and 

 industrious he may be. Any one that has had a large 

 experience in the prosecution of an enterprise will 

 have some good ideas about the business even though 

 he may not himself have met with success, and the 

 beginner can get advice from such a man that will be 

 of great benefit to him if it is understood and properly 

 applied. It is practically impossible to formulate 

 any inflexible rule as to the amount of work a 

 horse should have in the spring to properly condi- 

 tion him for a season's racing, as so much depends 

 upon the strength and condition of the horse, that 

 what would be proper in one case would be entirely 

 inadequate or excessive in another, and the trainer 

 must necessarily exercise his best judgment and dis- 

 cretion in determining the amount of work to be given 

 a horse that has been placed in his hands to condition. 

 The following are general rules applicable to most 



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