92 CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. 



largely on the proper angle of his feet. " He 

 should also be taught to go on as light a line as 

 possible, butj of course, all will not do this. Colts 

 should be taught to trail other horses and work 

 beside them without wanting to rush by as fast 

 as to cause them to break or trot themselves out 

 before the end of a mile. Colts do better with an 

 occasional let up of a week or ten days and jogged 

 every day or turned in a paddock to exercise them- 

 selves. I never work my colts miles as fast as they 

 will go. Governor Francis' fastest workout as a 

 three-year-old was in 2:14^4, yet he trotted in 

 2:iiJ4, 2:111/^, 2:12^ — the fastest three heats 

 trotted by a three-year-old stallion until 1913. 

 The Climax's fastest workout as a three-year-old 

 was in 2 :i2^, yet he paced in 2 :o7 in a race." 



Sam J. Fleming writes: "Futurity prospects 

 should be jogged three to six miles daily all win- 

 ter after two-year-old training or campaigning. 

 Start . to work mile in three minutes and drop 

 down slowly to 2 40. Then 30 to 60 days later 

 start repeating. The trainer will have to use his 

 own judgment from here on. Baroness Virginia 

 (3), 2:c8>^, was worked in 2:1714 as a two-year- 

 old and could have trotted in 2:15 or better. As 

 a three-year-old she was not worked faster than 

 2 :26j4', and was raced into condition over the half- 

 mile tracks, beating the half-mile track record 

 for her age. At Indianapolis, in the Western 

 Horseman Futurity, she trotted four heats around 



