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who takes in race-horses to train for noblemen and 

 gentlemen ; say, for example, at Newmarket, or any 

 other part of the kingdom, where the business of 

 training horses is carried on to a great extent. 



Training stables should be built on a dry, level 

 surface, either on or close to the training ground. It 

 is to be observed, also, that they should be at a suitable 

 distance from where the horses pull up after sweating, 

 trying or running. Being thus situated, they not 

 only answer every convenient purpose, but as all 

 trainers know, horses, like other animals, when making 

 towards home, come more freely in their sweats, and 

 will give their trials and races more kindly in I'unning to 

 their stables than from them. Were I to build training 

 stables at Newmarket, I would place them somewhere 

 about the centre of the fields at the back of the White 

 Lion public-house, and in a parallel line with His 

 Majesty's rubbing house, with the front of them to a full 

 southern aspect. I strongly recommend the front of all 

 stables being placed to the above aspect ; for from the 

 observations which I have made in attending sick horses, 

 I am of opinion that horses, when constantly standing 

 in stables, in which the doors and windows are placed 

 so as to front to the south, are not so liable to consti- 

 tutional diseases (the distemper, for example), as those 

 which stand in stables, the front of which may have 

 a northern, or perhaps a north-eastern aspect. Indeed, 

 there is something so cheerful and animating in the 

 enlivening rays of the sun (which horses enjoy in com- 

 mon with other animals) that I cannot too strongly 



