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trainers condition their race horses by repeated trials of 

 as great severity as the race itself; others spend their 

 preliminary seasons in perfecting the gait of their horses, 

 balancing, biting and schooling, at the same time giving 

 them sufficient work to render them physically capable 

 of a more strenuous effort than they are, but rarely, called 

 upon to make in their work outs. 



The latter is conceded to be the better method. So it is 

 with the instructors. Some lay most stress on the number 



Fig. 39. — Outline drawing of a fat barrow. 



of classes which their teams have had an opportunity of 

 placing, notwithstanding that such placing may have been 

 made under wholly unsatisfactory conditions, as when 

 no chance is afforded for subsequent discussion. Such 

 work tends to confuse and render chaotic whatever 

 correct notions the students may have entertained. 

 Others, and usually the more successful ones, spend the 

 time after their team is chosen, which is usually on the 

 basis of competitive judging, in demonstrations and dis- 



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