74 CARE AND TRAINING OP TROTTERS. 



condition. Teach it manners first atid then. speed, 

 then tnore manners, and' then more speetf. :1 The 

 'condition is easy, it will usually come itself. To 

 make manners, be gentle and kind, andnot'alwayS 

 too firm. Treat the colt as you would ybur.'son, 

 if he etfacks^' joke laugh at it. It will beypar 

 tftrnrto'Crack/a joke next. To make Jspeed, never 

 let a colt know how fast he can go. Drive hirtitris 

 besl!'dIten,;but;don't let him know it. , The way to 

 dtf'this; is by' letting it step fast for an eighth or a 

 siktbe&th; speiak to it, tap- it with the whip j J and 

 'let -it go-'for fifty to one huhdred feet,:and take it 

 right back to the clip it was going before it make^ 

 a'breaik. I don't believe in tnaking speed. by forc- 

 ing to a break, as najany do. t)on't let the colt 

 make a hop or a skip. If it does, and cbritinues, 

 take him J to the blacksmiths . Have perfect bal- 

 ance and a perfect gait. Boot him for protection 

 only arid if hte should hit himseif, don't wait for 

 him to we'ar his boots out (thinking there are' more 

 where yours came from) but take colt to th© smith. 

 Whenyoul think he can step: in eighth in the spring 

 in sixteen sfeconds,' take out your ' watch oh him 

 arfdM'-;'he 'Steps' an eighth in twenty or twenty- 

 ■three:;secondJs he is a good^cOlt. When you heai- 

 of-a^colt steppihg an eighth ifif sixteen seconds 'the 

 -f Mifth time it was' hitched it is usually a lie or 

 'they:losfc'.-arack^-6f' his workouts. Such talk is 

 nAsl^sSh§ tothe- new 'ttairtef 'aod to the' owner. 

 ■Along ill June r would work colt two repeats. 



