222 TRAINING YEARLINGS. 



of what may be called a bit of work with them. 

 The first week of the five, they may go such 

 steady, brushing gallops as will bring them suf- 

 ficiently clear in their wind to enable them to 

 go with tolerable ease to themselves through the 

 first gentle sweat. 



The first week of the five being disposed of as 

 above advised leaves us four weeks clear, which 

 is about the time, if the weather keeps open, 

 that these strong colts will take to be in regular 

 training. There may be a thick glutton of a 

 yearling, in this first class, that puts up flesh 

 very fast, and that is idle in his wind ; this sort 

 of colt would require to be as regularly worked, 

 in the lengths of his gallops and sweats, as an 

 aged horse, before he can be got sufficiently light 

 in himself, and clear in his wind, to be able to 

 come his best pace equally with those colts that 

 are much more delicate, and consequently sooner 

 ready. Unless the above precautions are taken in 

 the training of a thick colt, he may deceive the 

 trainer in his trial or race. The trainer must 

 therefore make allowances, and begin with such 

 colt accordingly; yet, the reader must observe, 

 that, upon a more general scale, yearlings do 

 not require to be drawn very fine, that is, not 



