EXAMPLES OF STABLES, ETC 



WHEN, some forty years ago, the author used occasionally to 

 spend his school holidays in the small village of Gullane, in 

 the county of East-Lothian, not far from Edinburgh, where a few train- 

 ing establishments were then located, and in which he took a boyish 

 interest, he little thought he would one day be called upon to design 

 one of the largest and perhaps most complete set of stable offices that 

 have been built during the present century, to say nothing of many 

 other buildings he has designed and erected of a kindred character, 

 or be connected in any way with horses or sport. At that time the 

 I'Ansons had training-stables at this place before moving to York- 

 shire, and trained for the late Mr James Merry of Belladrum, and 

 others. The author can well remember the beautiful horse Chanti- 

 cleer, and watching Macleod the animal-painter doing full justice to a 

 portrait of the handsome grey. 



The arrangement of the boxes in racing-stables in those days was 

 somewhat after the present fashion, each being separated, although 

 communicating with each other ; and if the author remembers aright, 

 there was a good arrangement for lads' rooms, mess-rooms, saddle- 

 rooms, fodder- stores, &c. ; and the trainers' houses were neat and 

 comfortable, with tasteful gardens and very simple pleasing exteriors, 

 to the walls of which clung the rose-tree and honeysuckle. 



One or two of the most successful trainers of the present day at 

 Newmarket trained horses in their early days at this place. At that 

 time between this quiet little village and the coast of the Firth of 

 Forth near North Berwick, there was a considerable range of downs 



