260 RUNNING YEARLINGS. 



should there not be running enough made for 

 our colt, you must begin making use of him 

 sufficiently early in the race, so as to draw them 

 out that we may know something about them." 



Now let us, by way of example, suppose 

 that six yearlings were entered in the stakes 

 already named, and tliat they all came to post 

 and ran; that it was a close race with the two 

 first, and that our colt was a tolerably good 

 third, but that the three others were beat a long 

 way, or rather that they were not placed. The 

 race being over, the colts are taken home. Now, 

 after a race is over, it is an invariable rule for each 

 training groom to question his jockey as to how 

 or what running may be made by different colts 

 or horses that may be engaged in any race. I 

 shall therefore relate the sort of conversation 

 that may be supposed to take place between our 

 trainer and his jockey on the race in question, 

 not only as to how our yearling ran, but as to 

 how the rest of them ran in this same race. The 

 trainer, in talking the thing over privately with 

 his jockey, says — " You all of you got a good 

 start; you appeared to me to be running at a 

 good pace; and, as far as I could discern, I 

 thought the whole of you kept pretty well to- 



