254 RUNNING YEARLINGS. 



begin their walking exercise from the starting- 

 post of the course, walking on as much of that 

 part of the course as may be necessary to give 

 them, in the latter part of it, a sufficient length 

 of ground to take their gallops on; and as they 

 are coming along in them, and are getting up 

 nearly opposite to where the colts are, these 

 latter should be ready to go off in their gallops, 

 and follow the former, the whole of the way up 

 between the rails, and pass the winning-post be- 

 fore they pull up. Thus are horses shewn a 

 course, and colts taught to go up between the 

 rails of one. 



We now come to speak of how yearlings are 

 to be brought to face the crowd on a race course, 

 at the time of the horses running. The way to 

 do this is, on the first day of the meeting, and 

 on each succeeding one, about an hour before the 

 races begin, to take the yearlings in question on 

 to the race course, under the charge of the head 

 lad, who should be on a hack in the front of them. 

 The lad, on his hack, followed l)y the colts, should 

 go up between the rails of the course, and pass 

 the winning-post ; then being turned about, they 

 should be walked back, down the outside of the 

 rails among the foot people, (who are by this 



