GALLOPING EXERCISE. 153 



aged horses, may be in any class. Yet the reader 

 must bear in mind, that some one or other of 

 the horses we have just classed according to 

 their ages, will occasionally have to be removed 

 from their own class (the yearlings excepted) 

 into that of a senior one, (taking care that the 

 length of the gallop is not too far for the young 

 ones) ; or a horse or two will have to be removed 

 froiTi a senior class into a junior; but this is 

 merely to ascertain, in some degree, how good 

 the best colt of a class of young ones may be: 

 there is no great difficulty in observing which 

 is the best colt or horse of any class; but it is 

 necessary, if possible, to know in due time how 

 much one colt may be better than others in 

 the same class in which he is. This cannot be 

 accurately known but by a private or public 

 trial, or removing the best colt of a junior into 

 a class of older ones, that are pretty well known; 

 or by putting an older one into a junior class 

 to lead the gallop for them. This brings us to 

 the subject of one horse leading others in their 

 exercise. 



The horse that leads others in their gallops or 

 sweats is, of course, the one that goes first in 

 any string or class of horses; and when it is not 



