194 TEACHING YEARLINGS. 



docks, before they can be sufficiently well broken 

 and trained, or what is usually termed " brought 

 out ripe to post." But the reader is to bear in 

 mind, that, of the two periods we have given for 

 the getting of yearlings ready to run, the last is 

 mostly to be preferred, as some colts require 

 much longer time than others. It is further to 

 be remarked, that the training of either yearlings 

 or two year olds will not require twelve months, 

 that is, it will not take so long a time for the 

 regular feeding, working, and watering of them, 

 to bring them into the proper condition to run; 

 but it will require fully that time in teaching 

 them, before they can be said to be thoroughly 

 well capable of doing whatever may afterwards 

 be required of them as race horses, and for the 

 trainer to perfect them in all those little matters, 

 of which we shall make mention as we proceed, 

 and to bring them out, as we have said, fully 

 ripe to post. 



Young ones, that come out to run thus early, 

 should be thoroughly well broken, and by the first 

 of November they should be in the training sta- 

 bles, under the care of the training groom : the 

 colts in one stable and the fillies in another; 

 and, by way of example, we will suppose there is 



