TEACHING YEARLINGS. 215 



This sort of trial gallop being over by the end 

 of December, the yearlings may now be laid by, 

 that is, they should be indulged for a month or 

 six weeks, coming out only on occasional days to 

 be lunged, with a view merely to keep them in 

 health. Two or three of the first class, more par- 

 ticularly if a little queer in their tempers, would 

 perhaps be the better of being ridden quietly 

 about, either daily or every other day, until about 

 the middle or end of February. Which of these 

 two periods must depend of course on the time 

 they are to come out to run as yearlings, that is, 

 whether it be in the middle or end of April. 



All that we have stated in this chapter, with 

 regard to the teaching of yearlings, also stands 

 good in the teaching of two-year olds, that is, 

 if the latter do not leave their paddocks until 

 they are two years old. 



