TRYING TWO-YEAR OLDS. 349 



nominally two-year olds, they are above three. 

 As there is nothing jadish about them, and as 

 the Derby meeting is not far distant, we will try 

 them a mile and a quarter. On the young ones 

 we will put six stone seven pounds, and on the 

 old one, the trial horse, (the three-year old), we 

 will put eight stone seven ; this will be giving to 

 the trial horse a year and eight pounds, which is 

 of course more than any two-year old could give 

 to a three-year old, where the running properties 

 of the former and the latter are equal, allowing 

 for the difference of their ages. The term " year," 

 in the common acceptation of the word, means 

 that one horse gives to another, or others, so 

 many pounds weight, in public running, accord- 

 ing as their ages may vary, where the younger 

 horse runs the length of the older ; but when a 

 horse is known to possess great superiority from 

 having won any great stake, as the Derby at 

 Epsom, or the St. Leger at Doncaster, or in a 

 handicap, such horse is generally highly weighted, 

 to bring him on a fair equality with the others. 



But to return to our trial. Having arranged 

 the length of the trial ground, and the weights 

 the trial horse and the colts are to carry in run- 



