348 ON BREAKING RACING-COLTS. 



up from their paddocks about the latter end of August; 

 and if, in a month or five weeks, tiiey could be got to 

 ride quiet, and follow each other up a short gallop, 

 they were considered sufficiently ])roke to be tried for 

 sale; after which, they were returned again to their 

 paddocks, to remain there until sold. 



But, noblemen and gentlemen who run the produce 

 of their own stud, and who are not particularly anxious 

 about selling, do not have their colts and fillies taken 

 up before the latter end of September, or early in Oc- 

 tober, either as yearlings or two-year-olds, just as such 

 breeders may best approve ; and if such young ones 

 have been properly treated, they are, when brought 

 into the stables, but little alarmed at the people and 

 the things about them. 



Those who have their establishments in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Newmarket, and who have also their 

 private training grooms and stables in that town, send 

 their young ones there to be broke and tried. When 

 the groom's time is not fully occupied with the number 

 of horses he has in training, he may, with the assist- 

 ance of the head lad and some of his best riding boys, 

 most likely arrange the breaking of the colts himself; 

 otherwise they are sent to the colt-breaker's residing in 

 the neighbourhood. But whether they are broke at 

 home, or sent to the colt-breaker's for that purpose, is 

 not very material. If the people who undertake the 

 management of them are in all respects well acquainted 

 with what they undertake to do, the thing is done 

 precisely the same in one training stable as in another. 



