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Newmarket. Consequently, in the North, the 

 young ones, agreeably to their ages, are trained 

 like the old ones, more for stoutness than for 

 speed. And as a greater number of horses are 

 bred in the North than in the South, the breeders 

 in the former country have an opportunity of 

 selecting from a greater number of colts and 

 fillies, and are consequently better enabled to 

 pick out young ones of substance, and less leggy 

 than those breeders in the South can do, who 

 have not quite so large a produce to choose from. 

 But to return to the trying of our young ones. 



When yearlings run at Newmarket, they of 

 course run their own length, the yearling course, 

 a little short of half a mile. (See the Racing Ca- 

 lendar). The weight they carry in running this 

 length is from eight stone to eight stone three 

 pounds, making the usual allowance of three 

 pounds to fillies, if they run with them. The 

 weights are much the same for the two-year old 

 colts and fillies, when running in their own class 

 and at their own lengths, which, at Newmarket, 

 is a little short of a mile. But when two-year 

 olds are engaged to run, in stakes or plates, with 

 horses of all ages, the weight to be given by a 

 three-year old to a two, in this sort of race, is 



