Multiple Email Accounts on Mail

morning all,
I have a MACBook Pro Retina 2013 model running Software OS X 10.9.4 (13E28). I have set up all of my email accounts (3 of them) in the default Mail program on the MAC. When I create a mail it always uses (defaults) to my yahoo account, however I always want it to use my Gmail account. I have looked in preferences and cannot see a way of changing this.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Carl

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