212 THE HORSE. 
always well to have a groom’s room within hearing of his horses, so that 
if any of them get cast, or are taken ill, he may be able at once to go to 
their assistance, but this can readily be done without placing any lodging- 
rooms over the stalls or boxes. 
GROUND PLANS OF STABLES. 
IN DECIDING ON THE BEST ground plan for stabling a great deal must 
always depend upon the kind and number of horses to be placed in it. 
In the following plans I shall consider the two extremes afforded by those 
for racehorses or hunters on the one hand, and on the other by the hack 
or harness stable for two or three horses where space is a great object. 
As a general rule racehorses and hunters require a loose box each, because 
they are often greatly distressed, and must then have entire rest and quiet 
to enable them to recover themselves. ‘They are also a great many hours 
together in the stable, and being called upon for great exertions when out 
they ought to have plenty of air when indoors. The best proportions for 
their boxes are sixteen to eighteen feet long by twelve feet wide and nine 
or ten high, but these are perhaps a little above the average. Nevertbe- 
less I have given these in the annexed plan of a 
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It is divided into four separate stables thirty-six feet long and eighteen 
wide, in which three or even four loose boxes may be separated by partitions 
nine feet high with open irgn tops, as shown at page 208, or one or more 
may be divided by travises into six stalls each six feet wide. I have already 
