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on the first floor, or ground plan of our centre build- 

 ing, I shall now proceed to describe the upper or se- 

 cond floor, which forms six chambers with a passage 

 leading to them, from which they may all be entered. 

 The room to the front and over the centre of the arch, 

 I have supposed to be the private saddle room, or if 

 you will, the study of the resident training groom. 

 One part of this room should be fitted up as a labora- 

 tory for keeping such medicines, instruments, and other 

 articles as will hereafter be noticed, together with the 

 apparatus necessary for compounding the medicines ; 

 a writing desk with a cupboard over it for books, such 

 as the stud-book, racing-calendar, and books of refer- 

 ence, those on medicine and the veterinary art. The 

 trial book should also be kept here. Another cup- 

 board or press should be fitted up with racks, for put- 

 ting away the trial saddles, trusses, small weights, 

 horses' plates, &c. The trial jackets and caps, which 

 should be all of one colour, may be kept here; and it 

 is also to be observed, that these saddles and trusses 

 should never be handled, if it can possibly be avoided, 

 by any one but the training groom or head lad. A 

 third cupboard, fitted up with shelves for the best of 

 the spare cloths, should also be provided. Racks and 

 pegs for the racing saddles, bridles, running reins, 

 girths, martingals, and surcingles, should be fixed up 

 in some convenient part of this room. There should 

 also be a dial, a weighing machine, and a weather 

 glass. This room will require a good sized fire-place. 

 The best description of locks should be put on the 



