RUNNING YEARLINGS. 261' 



getlier, until you were within about a distance 

 and a half of home, so that you must have 

 had a tolerably good opportunity of seeing what, 

 the rest of them were about. Were you third 

 by choice or by sufferance ? How was the 

 running between the first and second colts? 

 Was the colt that won called upon severely to 

 come, or did he win easy ? As to the other three 

 colts, they appeared to me to be fairly beat some 

 way from home, and I suppose pulled off." The 

 jockey, in answer to the trainer's questions, says 

 — " The first part of the running was much as you 

 saw it. The three colts that were last were beat 

 for pace long before we made our run. The colt 

 that won is a free, resolute sort of goer, the conse- 

 quence of this was, his jockey had to keep fast hold 

 of his head, and make the running for the whole 

 of us. The colt that was second is also a ready 

 comer ; when we were a little more than half a 

 distance from home, the winner was here quietly 

 called upon by his rider to come, when he imme- 

 diately began running at a severe pace, and the 

 colt that was second got well away with him. 

 Our colt, being so very idle, I could not get him 

 out near his best pace quickly enough to lay close 

 up by the side of them, so that, in the commence- 

 ment of the run home, they slipped me rather 



