. Care and training of trotters ... d. AfterI thought him in condition I drove him in these brushes about asfast as he could go. During all this time he was fed large quantities of grain andall the hay and grass he would eat. About the middle of July hewas asked to go his first half-mile and did it handily in 1:15. Tendays from that time he covered the same distance in 1:12. AboutAugust 1st he was driven a easy mile in 2:38%, the first one he hadever gone. In this mile he was brushed four or five times, and therest of the time only moved along at about a 3:00 gait. This milewas about as fast a
. Care and training of trotters ... d. AfterI thought him in condition I drove him in these brushes about asfast as he could go. During all this time he was fed large quantities of grain andall the hay and grass he would eat. About the middle of July hewas asked to go his first half-mile and did it handily in 1:15. Tendays from that time he covered the same distance in 1:12. AboutAugust 1st he was driven a easy mile in 2:38%, the first one he hadever gone. In this mile he was brushed four or five times, and therest of the time only moved along at about a 3:00 gait. This milewas about as fast as he was driven in his work in his two-year-oldform, and on August 9th he started at Keokuk, Iowa, in his firstrace. All of the other starters were three-year-olds. In the thirdheat, over a poor half-mile track, he distanced the field in 2:311/4,and the next morning Axtells name appeared in the daily papers forthe first time. Since that time none has appeared as often. se CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. Chapter VI— HE training of three-year-oldsdoes not differ greatly from thatof the younger colts except, withadded age, most youngsters re-quire more work. It has beenthought advisable to devote aseparate chapter to the three-year-olds, as such a division admits of a more care-ful study of several prominent colts of that training will be of interest to the a colt has been trained as a yearling, or as atwo-year-old, its training as a three-year-old willbe along the lines previously written of, but ex-tended as, in the opinion of the trainer, best suitsthe individual case. If a colt has not been previously trained; andthe owner desires to race the colt as a three-year-old, it will be necessary to proceed with earlytraining, as previously set forth for colts of ayounger age, except that the education and train-ing will have to be rushed and crowded into ashorter space of time. To save repetition of advice we will assumethat the colt has been pre
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