332 TRAINING TWO-YEAR OLDS. 



refer the reader to the last chapter in Vol. I. on 

 the Breaking of Yearlings; and to the three 

 first chapters in our second volume, on Teaching, 

 Physicking, and Training them. 



As it will be necessary to adopt the same sort 

 of treatment with the two-year olds as with the 

 yearlings, only allowing for the difference of their 

 year, we will not recapitulate what we have al- 

 ready stated, but confine our observations to the 

 alterations in treatment consequent upon their 

 being a year older. First, as to the physicking of 

 the colts in question: the same course is to be 

 adopted as with yearlings, with this exception 

 only, that the aloes may be increased in quantity 

 a drachm or a drachm and a half in each dose, 

 for the strong- constitutioned colts of the first 

 class. But to those of the second class, as the 

 hearty ones, an additional drachm only should be 

 given. As we shall want six clear weeks for the 

 further teaching as well as training of the first 

 class colts, they should have their two or three 

 doses of physic through them by the middle or 

 end of January, depending on when they have to 

 come to post, whether in the middle of March or 

 the beginning or end of April. With these, as 

 wdth the yearlings, it is always better to keep a 



