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forts promoted, by due attention to these regulations ; 

 while those who are uninstructed may learn what things 

 ought to be provided, and how they can be most com- 

 modiously arranged, so as to carry on the establish- 

 ment with the best prospect of success. I beg, how- 

 ever, to intimate to those whose situations will not per- 

 mit them to follow all the particular and minute in- 

 structions which I shall lay down, that where the end 

 proposed can be equally well attained by slight changes 

 or deviations from the instructions I shall give, such 

 changes or deviations may be adopted, to suit the cir- 

 cumstances, habits, or opinions of the party. 



I am aware, too, that modifications of my plans and 

 arrangements may be required in large establishments, 

 maintained by private individuals, or in small public 

 establishments in various parts of the country ; or in 

 those situations where a hunting establishment may, 

 to a certain extent, be combined with that for the 

 race. 



To follow such modifications, however, would be 

 at once very tedious, and but of little use, since the 

 ordinary judgment and experience of individuals can 

 best suggest what may best suit their peculiar plans, 

 circumstances or situations. My aim is to sketch, 

 both in outline and detail, the plans and practices of 

 a public racing establishment, according to the princi- 

 ples on which I think they should rest, rejecting no- 

 thing which appears to me necessary to conduct it in 

 the completest manner, without, however, presuming to 

 say that nothing superfluous has been introduced, or 



