EXAMPLE 



OF A 



TRAINING ESTABLISHMENT TO 

 ACCOMMODATE FIFTY HORSES. 



PLATES XXIX. & XXX. 



SOME years ago, at the request of a much -respected and dis- 

 tinguished member of the Jockey Club, I had occasion to 

 inspect in a professional capacity the principal racing establishments 

 at Newmarket. Some time was spent looking over five or six stables, 

 and the buildings that pleased me most were those built for the late 

 Mr Joseph Dawson, and designed, I believe, by the late racing judge, 

 Mr J. F. Clark. At that time these stables were considered the best. 

 Built in the Italian style of architecture, with, if I remember rightly, 

 a very comfortable trainer's house, the long fagade of the stables was 

 broken up by a tower. The planning of the boxes, the arrangements 

 for fodder and other details of comfort and convenience for carrying on 

 the business of so large an establishment, were points in the build- 

 ings which the late Mr Dawson took especial pleasure in explaining to 

 his friends ; and I still possess a lively recollection of the hospitality 

 and kindness I met with. The example which the readers are invited 

 to study has been prepared with great care, and contains such arrange- 

 ments and conveniences conceived to be necessary for an establishment 

 of this kind. The plan has been carefully considered by a gentleman 



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