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cupboards, and there should also be a good one on the 

 room door, nor should the keys ever be out of the pos- 

 session of the training groom. The other rooms on 

 this story, with a fire-place in each, may be allotted 

 for sitting and bed-rooms for the training groom, to 

 suit the convenience of the establishment. If it be 

 thought necessary, two or three rooms for the servants 

 of the training gioom, may form an attic story in this 

 part of the building. 



The several apartments which compose the central 

 building being thus allotted to their different uses, I 

 shall describe how the interior of the two saddle rooms, 

 for common use, are to be fitted up. It has already 

 been noticed, that these rooms are entered by the two 

 first doors, right and left, opposite to each other under 

 the a]"ch ; and from each of these, a door should open 

 into each range of training stables. These rooms are 

 designed for the exercise saddles and bridles, belonging 

 to horses in the boxes. They should also be furnished 

 with presses or cupboards, having shelves to receive 

 such spare cloths as may be in frequent though not in 

 constant use. The sweaters, for example, after being 

 well dried and folded up with the scrapers in them, 

 may be kept here ; indeed all the articles that are fre- 

 quently used about the horses, and many of those in the 

 stable, may, when not in use, be kept in these rooms. 

 A large corn bin should also be fixed in each of these 

 rooms, for the resident training groom to feed such 

 horses as may be under his care. Each room should 

 also contain a boiler, sufficiently large to hold half a. 



