THE TRIAL OF YEARLINGS. 149 
CHAPTER XVI. 
TRIALS (continued). 
How yearlings should be tried, and instances: Parole and Crucifix—Schism’s per- 
formance as a yearling—Jarly trials recommended—The best method of 
trying the two-year-old, and examples—The trial of older horses—Private 
trials and public form ; uncertainty of the latter exemplified in the case of 
Promised Land, Europa, and others—Trials proving ultimately more trust- 
worthy than public form, and instances: Cossack and Hermit—Defeats 
accounted for; instanced in the running of Fisherman, and mistakes of jockeys 
—tThe case of Lady Elizabeth and her detractors discussed ; the mystery 
accounted for; analogous cases: Green Sleeves, Macgregor, Gamos, and 
others, 
IT will be seen from what has gone before that I am 
an advocate of early trials. I have already observed that 
some horses as yearlings stay well three furlongs, but never 
get beyond that distance ; and that some horses stay the 
half-mile as two-year-olds, but do not later improve upon 
this performance—facts that should be an important 
guide. 
Thus, with yearlings, try half a mile, and you will be 
able without additional risk or expense to know more of 
their real merits, and be a better judge of what they are 
likely to be, than if you tried them only three furlongs. 
Parole 1 tried this distance only, and paid dearly for my 
first departure from an old-established and excelient rule. 
She won easily, but could never get beyond that distance ; 
though she won a little race at Brighton and was claimed, 
but I think never won after. 
