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could scarcely be called any trial at all ; and our 

 second best colt, (when in his best form), when 

 running in public, was, as we have noticed, far 

 superior to any of the company he ran in. There- 

 fore, as neither of them have been drawn out to 

 the top of their mark, by weight, pace, or dis- 

 tance, we must now endeavour to come at pretty 

 nearly the truth of what they really can do, not 

 only for speed, but for stoutness ; and as our se- 

 cond best colt has been running as a two-year old 

 so well in public, he will be a tolerably good 

 school-master to try our best colt. 



The reader is to bear in mind that we are still 

 at our home stables, where, having properly win- 

 tered our colts and horses, we have begun in due 

 time, as in the early part of January, to get them 

 all ready to be tried, according to the time of 

 their engagements. We shall now consider the 

 winter to have passed over, and that it is the 

 spring of the year, let us say towards the middle 

 of March, so that our two colts, which we are 

 again about to try, having been foaled early in 

 January, are very nearly three years and three 

 months old, although considered as two-year olds 

 until the month of May. 



