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accustomed to the training of them. Now, be- 

 fore we conclude this chapter, we will notice 

 some other little circumstances respecting the 

 entering of young ones. Those matters are 

 arranged in various ways — 



In produce stakes, it is one of the regulations, 

 immediately after the mares are stinted, to name, 

 on the probability of their being in foal, that 

 their produce shall run at two or three years old, 

 in some of the best stakes ; and if such produce 

 be from untried mares, and got by untried stal- 

 lions, the usual allowance of weight given in 

 favour of such young ones, when they first come 

 to post, is three, or sometimes five pounds; but 

 should there be no produce, there is of course 

 no forfeit. But there is no weight given in 

 favour of produce that may be got by tried stal- 

 lions out of tried mares. Breeders and owners 

 have, therefore, to depend for the success of their 

 young ones on the goodness of the stock from 

 which they descend, as, agreeably to the regu- 

 lations, the above produce cannot possibly be 

 tried previous to being entered. These are some 

 of the arrangements laid down in the Racing 

 Calendar, to which book we beg to refer the 



