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DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG RACERS. C. W. Carroll, trainer of A. D. Snreckels extensive stable, has built up quite a reputation in California as a developer of baby racers. His business each season is to take charge of some twenty-five head of one-year-old thoroughbreds and show them the wav to race. He does little of the training which the other horsemen do in getting mature horses in condition to go to the races. "It is just like teaching a child to walk," explains Mr. Carroll. "You have to study a young horse to teach him how lo race. No two baby horses can be trained alike. Knowing a horses disposition is about the biggest thing of all and lo got that information you have to be around them pretty constantly. A horse cannot tell you what Is the matter with him and how he would" like to race, and a teacher of young horses lias to study those things out for himself. It is the easiest tiling in the world to spoil a good horse. You can make a horse a bad actor at the post, yon can make him a sulkcr and there are a hundred faults which one can create if lie is not careful. "From the time the Sprcckcls-bred youngsters art-put in my hands I am watching them closely and trying to "figure out their dispositions. You have to see that a horse is resting well in his stall. If a horse begins fretting when young he will never amount to much unless you break him of it. There is much iu teaching a horse how to break away from the hairier, too. I make it a rule to -take them out iu bunches of eight or nine and when once the liarrier is released I seud them around the track the nearest way to the wire. Teaching them that it. is a business to run their hardest after the barrier is released makes a horse race game and true. You have to watch a racers stride and if necessary change his shoes and teach him the right was to run. I reckon there is more behind this training or horses than the average race-goer understands. Every morning our horses go through their drills, and I tell you a mother with her babe has no inorc cares and troubles than do the trainers." Carroll is a veteran, having driven trotters and trained thoroughbreds for the last thirty years. He was born In Vermont and has been with A. B. Spreckels for the last nine years.
