CHAPTER XXIV. 



TRYING OF TWO-YEAR OLDS. 



In trials as in races the weights and lengths 

 must be regulated by the ages of the different 

 horses at the time of their running. But in the 

 present chapter it is not my intention to detain 

 the reader by stating what weights are required 

 under different circumstances, nor how the sad- 

 dle trusses are to be loaded, as we shall have 

 occasion in a subsequent part of this chapter to 

 enter rather minutely into this subject. At New- 

 market, where speed is the principal object, the 

 weights are seldom so high, or the lengths of 

 the courses for the young ones to come over so 

 long, as at most of the spring meetings in the 

 North, where, generally speaking, the horses are 

 not quite so leggy as those that are trained at 



