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Training the Trotting Horse (1890) ^^-- ^'^ Cyf^-.y'^^. TRAINING The Trotting Horse A NATUEAL AND IMPROVED METHOD OF EDUCATING TROTTING COLTS AND HORSES, BASED ON TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE. / By CHARLES JV^ARVIN, SupeHntendent of Palo Alto Farm, Menlo Park, California. / ILLUSTRATED. irn'RlGHr ^'SV ^-^ ,VIAY I 1890 l^ 'W' , ' EDITED BY LESLIE E. MACLEOD, * ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF WALLACE'S MONTHLY, ETC, NEW YORK: THE MARVIN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Ltd. 1890. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1890 by MARVIN PUBLISHING CO., Ltd., in the office of the Libi-arian of Congress, Washington, D. C. [all rights reserved.] Chas. D. Sibley, Printer, 18 Rose Street, New York. i -o. '> V & S^-%, .0-^ O ^vk;^ ^^ .0^ -^• a- \ -y -<>, .^^ -J>- '?,. ^ " O K ^ <^^ -0" o. •0' O"^ '^ri '^ c-'^ :^^- -..._ "J- <^ ^ o 0' s, '•.# cV TO THE Honorable Leland Stanford, TO WHOSE GE>'IUS, THOUGHT AXD ENTERPRISE THE SYSTEM OF TRAINING EXPLAINED HEREIN IS MAINLY DUE, THIS WORK IS DEDICATED AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF RESPECT AND GRATITUDE BY The Author. EDITOR'S PREFACE. Although the title page of this book is perhaps a sufficient preface, a word as to its origin and prepara- tion is due the reader. For pubUshing the book no apology is required. Whether it will till a " long-felt want" or not is for the public to decide; but that the want exists no one can doubt. AVhtit the Palo Alto system of training has accom- plished is the best guarantee of its excellence. The system under which are developed animals to break the world's record at all ages, from one year old to four years old, speaks for itself. In comiuon Avith many others, I have long recognized in Charles Marvin the greatest of trotting-horse trainers, or perhaps T should say educators. lie seemed ])eculiarly tlie genius of his profession. His friends reasoned that a book on training- was wanted—and wdio so fit to write it as the master trainer ? Mr. Marvin is a modest man, and it was only in deference to the repeated urging of his friends that he consented, with the assistance of an editor, to undertake the work. Yl EDITOR S TREFACE. In January, 1889, I visited Palo Alto for the pur- pose of assisting Mr. Marvin in the preparation of the material for this work ; and remained with him three months studying his methods by day, and writing from his dictation for several hours each evening. In preparing the book for the press the aim has been in the simplest and most faitliful phrase to record Mr. Marvin's ideas, instructions and explanations in his own plain manner. The endeavor has been to write a book in such simple and clear English that everv stable- boy who aspires to be a trainer may read understand- ingly ; and at the same time we hope that the breeders and the most intelligent trotting-horsemen of all classes in the land will find in its pages something of interest and of instruction. An apology is due the public for the dela}"" in pub- lishing the w^ork, and I wish to say that for that delay I am alone responsible. The work of preparing the material for the press was many times greater than I anticipated, and was a labor, but a pleasant one, under- taken in connection with other duties that of them- selves should sufficiently employ one man's time. Time, like the horses, seems to go faster in California tlian elsewhere. I cannot recall any period in life more pleasant than the three bright, delightful months of congenial work, congenial companionship and congenial surroundings at Palo Alto, and the days flew by on hurrying wings. Still the "raw material'- gathered EDITOK S PREFACE. VU in that time was quite voluminous, and the work of editing it called for an expenditure of time and labor which, I presume, no one can appreciate who has not tried his hand at the " making of books." I have to here cordially and thankfully acknowledge the assistance kindly afforded me by Mr. Ariel Lathrop (the manager of Senator Stanford's vast interests in California) in placing at my disposal plans, drawings, and other material for use herein. In the hope that this book may be welcomed into the libraries of the trotting-horse breeders and trainers of America, it is submitted to the public, not without a sense of its imperfections, nor 3"et without confidence that in it will be recognized sufficient merit to assure it a place among standard works on the trotting-horse. L. E. M. New Yoek City, April, 1890. IX LETTER FROM JOSEPH CAIRN SIMPSON. The following interesting letter is from the author of "Tips and Toe-Weights;" "Horse Portraiture," etc., and breeder and trainer of Anteeo, 2:16J, and Antevolo, 2:19^. Oakland, Cal., Feb. 7. 1890. Leslie E. Macleod, Esq. My Dear Sir : Agreeably to your request, I send this short letter, in relation to my opinion of Charles Marvin as an edu- cator and driver of trotters. It is always a pleasant task to me to write words of commendation when there is merit to warrant eulogistic phrases, and that Mr. Marvin presents a case exactly to my mind, those who are as well acquainted with him, his methods, and, above all, his strict honor and integrity, as I am, will concede. Personally, the acquaintance dates from Mr. Marvin's residence in California, though before I left the East, now nearly sixteen years ago, I had received letters which gave me an insight into his character and his ability as the handler of trotters. It will not be out of place to rehearse how that knowledge was obtained. In 1873, I was employed, by Charles Schv/artz and A. S. (iage, to take charge of Dexter Park, which those gentlemen had rented of Messrs. Sherman and Tucker. During the early summer I received several letters from the owner of Smuggler, giving full descriptions of the horse, his rapid improvement under the charge of Marvin, in fact, a minute account of whatever would be likely to interest a purchaser. As a "token of good faith" he offered to deposit, to my order, whatever funds were required for the expenses of the trip, remuneration to whoever made the journey, and if the truth of his statement was not fully endorsed by the facts, the funds X LETTER FROM JOSEPH CAIRN SIMPSON. provided should be drawn upon to cover the whole outlay. He par- ticularly referred to the trainer as a man worthy of the fullest confi- dence, and that this certificate of good character would be signed by all who were intimate with him. I was so strongly impressed with the evident candor of the writer that I urged Messrs. Schwartz and Gage to join me in the purchase. The price at that time was $6,000, and there was a good chance to " win him out " at the meeting, which was to be held in July. There was a partial agreement, and I was preparing to make the journey when something came in the way, and the preparations for the meet- ing, at which $40,000 were "hung up," engrossed my attention, and the idea of purchasing was abandoned. He was to show 2:30 or better, and only a few weeks previous to his first letter he was far behind that figure. Writing from memory I cannot state positively what the improvement was, though it certainly demon- strated that there were the best of grounds for believing that he was destined to become a very fast trotter. The history of Smuggler is so well known that there is no necessity for amplification, further than to call attention to the fact that Mr. Marvin took him Avhen he was regarded of " little account," and carried him through the whole of his education until he reached the summit of the temple of equine fame. I hold that the talent necessary to be a successful trainer of trotters, especially youngsters, is more rarely met than the same amount of ability as a driver in races. And there is another point worthy of consideration, that a man who has been eminently suc- cessful as a teacher rarely, if ever, fails to be a good driver in races, whereas some of the renowned knights of the sullvy are far from being in the front rank of the profession, or that part of it which, consists in carrying animals from the primary schools to the first place in the graduating classes. There is a great deal of nonsensical talk, and not a little arrant humbug in the learned disquisitions which are heard when race-driving is the topic. The jangle of words indulged in on such occasions would be amus- ing were it not that insidious comparisons, and, at times, malicious attacks are made by men who have small knowledge of the business, although their dogmatical assertions mislead people who are not con- versant with trotting affairs. Mr. Marvin is unquestionably a driver of the highest class, and it would be eminently a work of superero- gation to present long arguments to prove that he possesses that facultv. LKTTKK FROM .lOSKPH CAIRN SIISIl'SON. XI It may be considered equally useless to lay so mucli stress on his handling colts, as nearly every "best record" has been made by colts that he has trained, and driven to that record. The Avord " nearly " can be cancelled as in the foregoing sentence, as yearling, two-year-old and three-year-old are to his credit, as the last year of colthood, four years old, is a dead heat for place, and that he will "break the tie "in 1890 is just as certain as anything of that nature can be foretold.
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