244 TRYING YEARLINGS. 



proacliing near home, you find him beginning to 

 tire, do not on any accovnit attempt to strike 

 him, or persevere with him in any way. Your 

 better plan will be, to take a strong steady pull 

 at him, as if you were going to pull him up, but 

 not so determinedly as to pull him entirely out 

 of his stride. The truth is, in case of your colt 

 tiring, I want you to try, in the way I tell you, 

 to get him as collected in himself as you can, so 

 that he may finish the little he may have to do 

 in concluding the trial, without, if possible, being 

 alarmed." 



The groom, having given the above orders, 

 proceeds on his hack to the winning-post, placing 

 himself sufficiently wide of it to have a clear 

 view of how each colt comes in. The length the 

 colts have to run being but a short one, he can 

 see pretty clearly the sort of start they make; 

 and he must narrowly observe how they are all 

 coming, and immediately he sees the first colt 

 pass the winning-post, he must place the others. 

 Having done so, and questioned the boys as to 

 the running, hdf then forms his opinion of the 

 good or bad properties of each colt, agreeably 

 to how they were placed in the trial. 



