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which constantly appears in metropolitan and pro- 

 vincial newspapers with such regularity that it would 

 appear that a good groom is as rare as the dodo. A 

 writer in The Illustrated SjJorting and Dramatic Neios 

 states that a good groom should have served five 

 years in a racing stable, five years in a first-rate 

 hunting stable, and two years as factotum to a dealer. 

 Personally, we should object to engaging a groom 

 either out of a racing stable or out of a dealer's stable, 

 as we do not wish to glean our knowledge of the turf 

 from our groom. Nor do we wish him to initiate us 

 into the mysteries of horse-coping. We want a man 

 to groom our horses, and though we cannot undertake 

 to engage such a man for the novice, we trust that the 

 foregoing hints will enable him to find a man, who at 

 least will not ruin his horses. 



