90 CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. 



Etawah was a sorry looking spectacle. After Don 

 Chenault had won a heat in 2:05%, and i Peter 

 Johnston one in 2:08%, Etawah was the freshest 

 horse in the race and won the next three heats 

 handily in 2:08%, 2:10, and 2:12. The driver 

 of Etawah, who had been criticised for giving his 

 colt so much work between futurities (the same 

 people criticised the driver of Don Chenault for 

 not doing the same thing!) is of the opinion that 

 the hard work between the two futurities put 

 Etawah "on edge," as the saying goes, for the big 

 race. Others believe' that Etawah won oh" his 

 gameness and would, have won without such 

 harsh treatment. And so we say, even experi- 

 ence is not an indisputed criterio;i for training 

 colts. 



Henry M. Jones writes : "Three-year-olds 

 should 'be taken up not later than February i 

 and jogged five to six miles a day, except Sun- 

 day. One should start to work heats not later 

 than April i, starting with miles every other day 

 in three minutes and dropping down. If colt 

 has shown speed in its two-year-old form it can 

 be dropped down to 2:45 ^^ ^^^ weeks. I brush 

 an eighth away from the wire and an eighth home. 

 In two weeks from the time of working heats 

 the colt should be given two heat repeats, and 

 from two to four weeks later three heat repeats, 

 first mile in 2 40, last two in 2 :3s or 2 130, with 

 first and last quarters in 35 seconds. When the 



