372 ON BREAKING RACING COLTS. 



make much of them for a short time. They may then 

 mount them and walk them quietly by the side of the 

 rails home to their stables. 



During the meetings which are so frequent at New- 

 market, all opportunities should be taken by the colt- 

 breaker when the rails are open, to bring his colts 

 home up between them by the crowd, passing the 

 winning-post to where the horses usually pull up. The 

 colts should be pulled up here, and walked back again 

 to the weighing stand, and treated as before mentioned. 

 They should afterwards be kept walking about among 

 the crowd until the races are over ; and this should be 

 done every day during the meeting. The meetings 

 being over, they may occasionally be walked out to 

 Warren Heath, and here for a few days let them walk 

 the different gallops ; after which, the colt breaker may 

 teach them to follow each other in a canter for about 

 half a- mile up either of the gallops. When the colt 

 breaker intends taking the colts out for a short gallop, 

 he should be on a hack in front, so as to rate them off 

 properly. I do not mean by rating them properly, 

 that there is any great occasion to attend much to the 

 pace they may choose to go off at. They may go 

 from a walk into a trot, and from a trot into a canter, 

 or they may go from a walk into a canter ; this is of 

 very little importance at present. But it may be ne- 

 cessary to caution the boys to keep fast hold of each 

 colt's head, that is to say, to keep their heads up and 

 in good place ; and with any of them that are inclined 

 to pull rather more determinedly than the rest, the reins 



