. Care and training of trotters ... o days later, won a race,best time 2:14. The next week at Independencehe worked in 2122, the following week at DesMoines in the same notch. He was then senthome and jogged three weeks. At St. Louis heworked in 2:19, then was shipped to Terre in the week he was driven an exhibition in2:14^4. The next day he was not harnessed, thefollowing day he was jogged six miles to cart on acountry road. The next day, Oct. 11, he reducedthe three-year-old record, and also the all-agedstallion record to 2:12. That night he was soldfor $105,000. In Conclusion. W
. Care and training of trotters ... o days later, won a race,best time 2:14. The next week at Independencehe worked in 2122, the following week at DesMoines in the same notch. He was then senthome and jogged three weeks. At St. Louis heworked in 2:19, then was shipped to Terre in the week he was driven an exhibition in2:14^4. The next day he was not harnessed, thefollowing day he was jogged six miles to cart on acountry road. The next day, Oct. 11, he reducedthe three-year-old record, and also the all-agedstallion record to 2:12. That night he was soldfor $105,000. In Conclusion. We have now followed the colt from the day ofits birth to the fall of its three-year-old form. Bythis time the reader, if he has absorbed and di-gested all that has been written, by the famous 106 CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. horsemen who have contributed to this work, andeven if he is an amateur, will have formulatedideas of his own on the proper way to train andrace. When a man reaches that stage, further ad-vice is ****** ^«g Native Belle, 2:07% (in 1909), Worlds Champion Two-year-oldTrotting Filly. APPENDIX. 107 Appendix—Chronic Dr. A. S. Alexander. There is on almost every stock farm, wherehorses are kept, at least one horse that does not dowell. His coat is coarse and stands on end; hisurine at times is plentiful, but at other times scantand like honey. When he stands in the barn forone day without work or exercise, his hind legsstock up and when he is put to work he sweatseasily and without hard labor or sweats profuse-ly after he is placed in the barn at noon or is a ravenous eater and gets all he wants toeat, but is not satisfied and so proceeds to eat hisbedding. If he is watched closely, it will be seenthat he has the habit of raising his upper lip asif yawning; his manure differs in compositionfrom time to time. Sometimes it is composed ofsmall, hard, dry balls; at other times the ballsare larger and covered with slime; agai
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