22 ON THE STABLES, ETC. 



is now followed by many thousands in the different 

 ranks of life, rather as a business of a deep speculation. 

 Where there are such enormous sums of money de- 

 pending on the result of any great stakes, or heavy 

 match, we ought to bear in mind that no pains which 

 promise any chance of success should be spared, nor 

 any accommodation that might in any way be advan- 

 tageous to horses in training, should ever be lost sight 

 of. The first object to which I shall direct the atten- 

 tion of my readers is that of Training Stables. 



Although I have lived in different stables, I never 

 remember to have seen any that I could consider in 

 every respect as being perfectly complete. It is, how- 

 ever, a matter of importance, as well for the health 

 and comfort of the horses, as for the convenience of 

 the training groom and his boys, that proper stables 

 should be provided for race-horses to stand in, not 

 only during the time of their training, but also during 

 the winter, at which period of the year many of them 

 are out of training. There are tolerably good stables, 

 both public and private, at Newmarket, and at many 

 other places where race-horses are trained. Trainers 

 know how stables should be constructed, for the pur- 

 pose of carrying on their business with facility ; yet 

 there are some of these stables so very badly arranged 

 with regard to convenience, as to render them very 

 inferior to others, the circumstances of those who own 

 them probably not admitting of their making them as 

 perfectly commodious as they ought to be. 



Having lived both in good and bad stables, I am 



