CHAPTER XXIII. 



TRAINING OF TWO-YEAR OLDS. 



We have appropriated seven chapters to describ- 

 ing the manner of teaching, physicking, training, 

 sweating, trying, and running of yearlings, be- 

 cause they are sometimes taken up from their 

 paddocks at this early age to be tried in private, 

 and even to run in public. These trials and races 

 are often solely with a view to ascertain what the 

 colts are, so as to keep those that are very pro- 

 mising, and, to save expense, by disposing of those 

 that are not likely to become racers. 



Should the colts we are now about to train 

 not be taken up from their paddocks until they 

 are two years old, they will have to be treated in 

 all respects as the yearlings were; we therefore 



