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GOOD TRAINER NECESSARY Big Factor in Whatever Success Is Scored on the Turf Statistics Show Same Limited LimitedNumber Number of Conditioners Win WinBig Big Stakes Each Year Many of the enthusiastic admirers of the thor ¬ oughbred imagine that almost anyone can train a race horse but if one looks over the turf statistics at the end of each year it will be observed that year after year the same limited number of trainers win most of the desirable stakes writes the vet ¬ eran trainer Charles E Brossman BrossmanThere There are many owners liberal in the purchase of grandlybred yearlings and prospects for great stake events excellent judges of pedigrees shape and conformation equal in this respect to any trainer and better than many but when it comes to training condition work required and proper method to pursue iu preparing a horse to be at its best form for a future event their opinion is of little value They conceive the idea that if they purchase high priced wellformed horses with a lit ¬ tle advice from some turf oracle almost any foreman or caretaker will do as a trainer but when the number of the winner is hung up it will be found that the winner was trained by a real trainer and one that understood his business It is a peculiar fact that men will invest enormous sums of money in a racing stable and then try to economize on the trainer trainerIn In any other enterprise the manager is considered the most important and highest paid employee of the capitalist and in the race horse business the trainer ought to be the manager and more for a successful campaign Kacli horse must be considered as en individual proposition and work that would be re ¬ quired to make one fit and ready would render another useless as a racing tool Therefore the shrewd trainer carefully watches the horses under his charge notes not only the amount of work they do but how they do it and in what condition they come back The horse must be kept healthy sound and ready for the feed bcxr feed is after all the best criterion as to work required for an engine cannot be run without fuel it may take its work satisfactorily right up to the last trial before the race and then something may happen within twentyfour hours that the public will never know about to necessitate anxious and efficient work on the part of the trainer Consequently the trainer must lc vigilant careful persevering resourceful and efficient and lie is the only one that really knows whether or not the horse is as good as it ought to be when it comes to the post postRECORDS RECORDS STAND FOREVER FOREVERThe The dopesters may scan the form sheet and fig ger to a demonstration the dockers may check up the work and know to a certainty about the dif ¬ ferent trials of speed but the shrewd trainer is the only one that knows liow the horse coojed out and how its constitution vitality nervous system liga ¬ ments and muscles withstood the work The trainer of experience has knowledge that can be acquired in no other way theories will perish opinions will fail but records will forever stand standMuch Much discussion has recently been indulged jn concerning the different methods employed by which Billy Kelly and Eternal were prepared for their great race in Maryland Kacli horse received an in ¬ dividual preparation just suited to his require ¬ ments opposite in character but satisfactory iu both CiiJes each horse running in the race to his best form finishing htads apart the owners satisfied and the public vigorously applauding a great horse race raceIt It lias long been said that there is a vacancy at the top in any profession and the art of training is no exception to the rule therefore if an owner hopes to be successful in a business where competi ¬ tion is so keen lie absolutely must employ an ex ¬ perienced shrewd careful capable and dependable trainer The race horse business is an expensive business at best There can be no economy in any of the important links of the chain Whatever the horse requires to make him thoroughly fit to race that must he have the cost is incidental and the owner will greatly increase liis chances of success if he procures the best training talent available availableA A trainer should take delight in his profession become intimately acquainted and upon friendly terms with each of his horses enjoy watching the process of development and the horses will recognize and love him do better in the stable and race better if the surroundings are congenial pleasant clean and sanitary sanitaryKnowledge Knowledge if pedigree judgment of form ability to purchase all goes for naught if the stable is managed by an inefficient trainer who trains and works by set rules and a formula Iersonal initia ¬ tive quickness to perceive changing conditions and to know how to remedy disastrous indications is re ¬ quired and this talent is what makes the stable successful and Avins races
