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other to superintend his boys, and see that they dress 

 their horses properly, and without abusing them by 

 kicking or striking them. 



This building being intended as a public establishment 

 for the standing of race-horses, as well as to afford 

 proper accommodation for them, there must be rooms 

 for the grooms, head lads, and boys who are some- 

 times sent with horses ; and the sitting rooms, and 

 chambers placed over the stables, in both wings and 

 extending through the entire range, are intended for 

 this purpose ; so that the partition walls dividing the 

 stables, being continued up to the roof, will principally 

 form the rooms on the second floor. These large rooms 

 over each of the four, and three-stall stables, are to be 

 partitioned ofT, in which partition there is to be a door- 

 way ; this will give in each wing two sitting and two 

 bed rooms, communicating with each other. In such 

 an establishment as I have here traced, there ought to 

 be living, to assist the resident training groom, a steady 

 man and one head lad, or otherwise two head lads ; 

 and it is for them, and the grooms and head lads who 

 may occasionally be sent with the horses, that the 

 communicating sitting and bed rooms are intended ; 

 the others are for the boys whose horses are in loose 

 boxes, or in two-stall stables. In each of the bed 

 rooms of the resident head lads, there should be an 

 alarum clock. This arrangement of the second floor 

 in each wing, will give nine bed rooms, and two sitting 

 rooms ; the whole of them are to have fire places, and 

 to be conveniently fitted up with pegs, cupboards, 



