TRYING YEARLINGS. 245 



On the following morning the six fillies should 

 be tried in the same way as the colts were ; and 

 the groom will judge of them as he did of the 

 colts, just according as they may be placed. 



We will observe, with regard to riding a year- 

 ling in a private trial, when he is well on his 

 legs, and settled in his stride, that, if he should 

 feel inclined to go to the head, and, by in- 

 creasing his pace, he can get well away from 

 the company, he should be permitted to do so, 

 by being allowed to make his own run. The 

 rider should never pull or wait with a yearling 

 as he would do with a three or four year old 

 in a race. Although this might be very well 

 with one of the latter class, as he would have 

 some idea of what his rider was about ; yet it is 

 a bad way to ride a yearling when he has not 

 been long enough at it to know how to collect 

 himself, and wai't patiently. Pulling determinedly 

 at him would baulk him of his stride, by which 

 he would become flurried; indeed, if he was thus 

 to be ridden in a trial, it would be no trialRv'hat- 

 ever. If a yearling in a trial/ will readily take 

 the lead, the rider has nothing more to do than 

 to sit quiet, and with a gentle steady pull keep 

 his head straight, and let him go on with the pace 



