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Chapter V — Preparing for Two-year-old 

 Futurities. 



E HAVE written of the care 

 and training of. the colt from 

 the day it is foaled till the 

 time when it is desired to 

 "make speed." We assumed 

 that the speed-making was to 

 be done in the colt's yearling 

 form-T^we have even shown how colts are 

 worked for yearling records. If it is not desired 

 to make speed in a yearling, this part of the colt's 

 education may be postponed a year or two, at the 

 owner's option, but even if colt is not to be raced 

 until its aged form it is desirable to "make speed" 

 while it is young and impressionable, for the colt 

 will be easier to train Jater. This chapter is to be 

 devoted to preparing two-year-olds for the futuri- 

 ties. By this we do not mean to advise that all 

 t\yo-year-olds be prepared with that purpose in 

 view, but in case it is desired to train a two-year- 

 old this chapter will be found to contain valuable 

 hints from noted trainers. 



In many cases the two-year-old that is to be 

 trained for the futurities will have been running 

 out during the winter, especially in southern clim- 

 ates. Some trainers, of whom J. B. Chandler is 

 one, do not believe that colts that are to be trained 

 for- the two-year-old futurities should be turned 



