258 RUNNING YEARLINGS. 



we made mention in the early part of this 

 chapter. In these stakes we suppose to have been 

 entered in due time one of the two yearlings we 

 brought with us to the meeting, (the second best 

 colt), the one that ran within three lengths of 

 the colt that won at the two trials of the three 

 classes of colts and fillies, and which we selected 

 as being the best out of the twelve yearlings we 

 tried in the last chapter. 



Now, to ride our yearling we will put up our 

 own jockey, whom we know to be an experienced 

 good rider; he is an honest man, and has long 

 been in the practice of riding both young ones and 

 old ones, in trials and races, under all the various 

 circumstances in which such things are done. 

 This man is consequently a good judge of what 

 is called a racing pace; he is therefore fully ca- 

 pable of describing all the particulars of the 

 running, in any race in which he himself may 

 be engaged to ride. The instructions given by a 

 trainer to a jockey, as to how he is to ride 

 any colt or horse in a race, are termed '' a 

 jockey's orders." But as we are going to put 

 upon our colt our own jockey, it will be more 

 a matter of discourse between the trainer and 



