42 ON THE STABLES, ETC. 



presses, &c. At the back part of the building, or 

 along its northern front, a sufficient space is left for a 

 passage, from which the entrance to the several cham- 

 bers may be made. This passage is lighted by win- 

 dows in the back, and is entered by an outside stair- 

 case to each wing. The remaining portion of this 

 floor in the centre building may be converted into two 

 bed rooms, for the use of the private servants of the 

 resident groom, and over these rooms the clock is to be 

 fixed, as may be seen in the plan. Having described 

 the exterior walls of the stables, as well as those in the 

 interior for partitions, I now proceed to explain the 

 plan of the interior of the stables. In each wing are 

 nine separate spaces of ground partitioned off, and of 

 different dimensions ; but as the two wings exactly 

 correspond with each other, the description of the in- 

 terior of the stables in one wing will suffice for both. 



Proceeding from the centre, the first plot of ground 

 is for a four-stall stable, allowing for each stall a space 

 of six feet in the clear of the wood work. Such should 

 be the breadth of every stall on the premises, but by 

 no means wider ; if it be, the horse will often be 

 standing across it. In my opinion, a racing stable 

 should never consist of more than four stalls ; as it 

 seldom occurs that in one establishment, there are 

 more than four horses which require to be worked and 

 treated so exactly alike, as at all times to be placed in 

 the same class. As a guide to my observations on the 

 arrangement of the interior of the stables, let us sup- 

 pose the horses to be standing in the stables. I would 



