Training Trotters (1937) 

Full title reads: "Training Trotters!"
Near Berlin, Germany.
American sport of horse trotting.
M/S of stable hands leading thoroughbred horses, foals and ponies out of a barn. Various shots of horses and foals gambolling around paddock.
M/S of stable hands putting bridle on horse. C/U of foal. Various shots of two men training horse on a tether to trot, lifting its feet high of the ground.
Various shots of horse attached to lightweight trap (open carriage). Narrator explains trap is called a "sulky" in trotting. Various shots of horse being fitted with bits of equipment to improve trotting technique; foot weights, blinkers and other restrictive garments.
Various shots of a trotting race; horses pull sulkies around track.
FILM ID:1158.16
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