246 TRYING YEARLINGS. 



he appears able to maintain to the end of the 

 trial ground. 



Whenever colts and fillies are tried, they 

 should, on being pulled up after their trials, 

 be let stand for a minute or two to recover 

 their wind. As they are in good condition, if the 

 morning is moderately cool, being stripped, they 

 will not be heated in coming the length of the 

 trial ground, they may, therefore, walk in line 

 for a short time; or, if the water troughs are at 

 a moderate distance, they may be walked up to 

 them, and allowed to take a few go-downs of 

 water ; they may then walk away to the stables, 

 or, if none of them have been alarmed in their 

 trials, they may go gently up a short gallop, and 

 afterwards walk back into the stables. I recom- 

 mend this sort of treatment, after their being 

 tried, in order to make their trials appear to 

 them as much like their exercise as possible, 

 with a view to prevent their becoming alarmed. 

 If any of them are frightened, from the exertion 

 they have undergone in being tried, they will fre- 

 quently refuse their corn for a stable hour or two ; 

 but, by gentle usage, and by watering them rather 

 liberally, and not laying their corn before them 

 in too large a quantity, they soon come to feed 



