76 CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. 



yearlings to thoroughly manner them and de- 

 velop and grow them. They should commence 

 jogging about February i and, when the footing 

 is good, should be jogged fast, right up to their 

 gait. I do not jog over two miles at first, and 

 never over three miles later. There is nothing 

 so harmful to a colt as slow jogging over a long 

 dikance. They get thoroughly tired and sick of 

 the game and learn all the bad habits in the cata- 

 logue. As soon as there is a track in the spring 

 they should be worked the Gov. Stanford (Palo 

 Alto) brush system, working them a little every 

 day, except Sunday, and being very careful to 

 not do too rnuch with them any one day. After 

 a month of this kind of work they can be worked 

 two heats of the brush work, every other day, 

 jogging two to three miles the day between or, 

 what is still better, be turned in a nice grass pad- 

 dock the day between the repeats. I will say 

 here, that, the failures I have seen in the use of 

 the brush system have been because trainers make 

 too much use of their colts. They think because 

 they are using the brush system, that they must 

 keep their colts right up on their toes all the 

 time, and they go too far with them, not stop- 

 ping to consider the distance they have been. If 

 they would stop and figure the quarters they have 

 been, it would often be from a mile and a half to 

 two miles at speed. This would soon make a 

 colt stale and tired of the game. After three or 



