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valuable stakes we have at our principal meet- 

 ings. The owner having no opportunity of trying 

 his single produce privately at home, sends it to 

 a training establishment to be got ready to be 

 tried publicly, by entering it into a stakes with 

 other yearlings, which we shall explain in the 

 next chapter. 



We will now notice some few arrangements 

 relative to the disposal of the twelve yearlings 

 we above supposed to have been tried. In the 

 trying of so large a number, it will of course 

 be found that there is a considerable variation 

 among them, as regards the good or bad pro- 

 perties they may each possess, as we have al- 

 ready shewn. Those of size that are thought to 

 have sufficient speed to come short lengths, as 

 across the flat at Newmarket, or others that are 

 thought to be sufficiently stout to come the Derby 

 length at Epsom, or the St. Leger at Doncaster, 

 will in due time be suitably entered by the 

 training groom into a few of such of the good 

 things as are to be run for at the above-men- 

 tioned places, either by two or three year old 

 colts or fillies. Such others of the twelve year- 

 lings as were proved not to be quite so fast as 

 those first mentioned, we will consider as forming 



