CHAPTER VI. 



Working Colt or Hoese on Snow Sometimes Great Improvement 

 Oyer Track Work— Their Care and Management in Winter- 

 Case Cited, Wm. Kearney, 2:30J3— If a Colt is Good-Gaited 

 AND Well-Bred— Ip He Don't Trot, Do Not Get Discouraged, 

 But Persevere— Case Cited, Flora F., 3 :24J,i— Treatment of 

 Colt After a Winter's Work— His Work at Three Years' Old- 

 Changes Necessary— Look to His Teeth— If Lips Peel, Cover 

 Bit With Pork Rind— Changing Feed Sometimes Beneficial- 

 Booting Very Necessary— A. B. Smith's Rochester, N. Y., Horse 

 Goods Depot— Management of Mares During the Breeding 

 Pbjriod, Also Stallions— Use Stallion Support— Management 

 AND Driving Colt His First Race— Grooms— Loading and Ship- 

 ping in Cars— a Driver Should Attend to His Horse at All 

 Times— Management of a Horse in Training— Jane R. King— 

 Almont. 



To return to the colt. If in his two-year-old form he 

 don't show much speed but is good-gaited and stays sound 

 and has an expectation of speed, as he came from a family of 

 speed producers, let him up in the fall, (say until snow falls, if 

 you are in the North). Then put your shoes on and com- 

 mence to use him, as I have had young horses improve faster 

 to a sleigh than any other way. The change of scenery, soft- 

 ness of the snow path, lightness of the weight, as a sleigh runs 

 easy, difference in the shoeing, as you have to use a calk many 

 times' well sharpened. I have had them improve more in a 

 month on the snow than in three months on the road or track. 

 In the case of the bay horse Wm. Kearney, record now 2:20|-, 

 I bought him about July 1st, he was partly broken to harness, 

 and was four years old, I finished breaking him and drove ' 

 him considerable ; he showed no speed, that is to say, not bet- 

 ter than a four-minute gait. About the last of August I 

 turned him out, and it being a nice warm. fall, I let him run 

 until about the middle of November, when I brought him in, 

 put his shoes on and commenced to use him. In about two 



