340 TRAINING TWO-YEAR OLDS. 



ket, and travel our horses off to our home stables. 

 On arriving there we will give our horses and our 

 second best colt ten days or a fortnight's rest, 

 to recover from their journey; but we will at 

 the same time give them such exercise as will 

 keep them sufficiently clear in their wind to 

 come at their best pace for any length we may 

 want them, to try our best colt, or any other 

 colts or horses on the premises. These arrange- 

 ments, taking place in the month of December, 

 used to be called " the Christmas trials." 



As our best colt is now a pretty strong two- 

 year old, and very fresh and well, we will try 

 him for speed with our second best colt, and a 

 couple of others, one of whom should be a three- 

 year old, and which we will consider as the trial 

 horse; the other a four-year old. This latter 

 we put in merely to make up something like a 

 field, or party of horses, so that our best colt, 

 that has never started in public, may not be 

 alarmed when he comes to run with other horses 

 in any race in which he may be engaged. The 

 length of the trial ground should be the same as 

 the two-year old course on the flat at New- 

 market (see the Calendar). On the two young 

 ones we will put six stone two pounds; on the 



