256 RUNNING YEARLINGS. 



rails and in tlie crowd, as they were on the day 

 previous. When the bell rings for the saddling 

 of the horses that are going to run, the colts 

 should be walked down between and as far below 

 the rails as is necessary to admit of their getting 

 tolerably clear out of the crowd. Their having 

 arrived at this part of the course, the head lad, 

 under whose care the two colts are, speaks to the 

 boys who are riding them : he says — " Now mind 

 you are both ready to follow me with your colts, 

 immediately on the horses passing," (meaning the 

 horses that are running). As soon as the whole 

 of the horses are passed by, the head lad on his 

 hack, and the boys on their colts, immediately 

 follow the horses up the distance, passing the 

 winning-post. The colts, on being pulled up 

 here, should, as I have already observed, be 

 kindly spoken to and much noticed by the boys 

 on them; after which they may be kept walking 

 about near the crowd for an hour, or until they 

 have become cool and collected from the little sur- 

 prise the bustle they have been engaged in may 

 have occasioned, when they may be taken home. 



Now, when a number of horses (say six or 

 eight) are running at a country meeting, they 

 mostly run heats. Some of these horses will 



