264 RUNNING YEARLINGS. 



are on the following day travelled off to the 

 home stable. This brings us to about the 

 middle of April, at which time it will be advisa- 

 ble for us to lay by for a short time our two 

 yearlings. The one w^e have so high an opinion 

 of, and that has not run in public, we will 

 get ready to turn out by putting him into a 

 cool loose box, and gradually stripping him of 

 his clothes. On the first of May, his shoes 

 being taken off, his feet being properly cleaned 

 out, and the lower edges of the crust rasped 

 round, we will, as we do not intend bringing him 

 to post for some time, put him for a couple of 

 months into a well-fenced paddock, in which 

 there is a good supply of fine spring grass. In 

 this paddock there is of course a water trough, 

 and a well-ventilated loose house in which the colt 

 may shelter himself from any severity of the 

 weather. The house is to be kept clean, and 

 properly littered as occasion may require, under 

 the superintendance of the groom or head lad; 

 the colt we put here is to be regularly and plen- 

 tifully fed with corn every day, by the boy who 

 looks after him. He may also have daily, if he is 

 inclined to eat it, some hay. 



The yearling we have been running in public. 



