CHAPTER XXV. 



THE TRAINING GROOM's REFLECTIONS, AFTER HAVING 

 TRIED A COUPLE OF COLTS, BOTH AS YEARLINGS 

 AND AS TWO-YEAR OLDS, WITH THE OPINION HE 

 HAS FORMED OF THEM AS TO HOW THEY MAY 

 RUN. 



In this chapter it is my purpose to state what 

 further is to be done with the two colts which 

 we are supposed to have been trying as yearlings 

 and two-year olds. The trainer, in musing over 

 the pros and the cons relative to the two colts, 

 but particularly as to the best one, with which 

 he thinks he has a right to win the Derby, says — 

 *' It is true we have only tried him privately, yet 

 I think we have found him to be the best we 

 ever did try, and he is not only a fine lengthy 

 colt, but he is of good substance, and is therefore 



