356 TRYING TWO-YEAR OLDS. 



who look after them, and stripped of their stand- 

 ing clothes. To prevent the chance of the 

 saddles shifting, those who are to ride the 

 horses are to be handed up by the leg in the 

 usual manner, instead of being allowed to get 

 on the horses while they are standing in the 

 stalls, by the help of the stirrup. The riders be- 

 ing mounted, and having knotted their reins, 

 the stable door is opened, and the horses are 

 now ridden out to the trial ground, attended by 

 the groom on his hack, at a proper distance, 

 who usually at this time gives his orders as to 

 how the trial is to be run. 



We will here make a few general remarks on 

 the subject of riding trials, as the manner in 

 which horses are to be ridden in them differs 

 so very widely from that in which they are 

 to be ridden in their races. Now the reader 

 is to bear in mind that the trial horse, virtually 

 speaking, has nothing to do with respect to how 

 the other horses he is trying may run on with 

 him; for, as soon as they are started, the jockey 

 on the trial horse is to commence making such 

 running with him immediately from the start as 

 he thinks he can safely rate him on at for the 

 whole length of the trial ground; that is, he is 



