48 ON THE STABLES, ETC. 



belter regulated by window shutters. Rings should 

 be fixed in the stall posts for the purpose of buckling 

 on pillar-reins : but generally speaking, pillar-reins 

 are not used in race-horse stables, unless it is when 

 the young ones are breaking in. There should be 

 saddle-racks in each stable, and as boys are short, 

 they should not exceed a height of six feet from the 

 ground. Their place should be in the partitioning walls, 

 in the centre of that part of the wall between the com- 

 municating doors and the ends of the horses' stalls, 

 with a peg under each. In each four-stall stable 

 there should be four of these racks and pegs ; in each 

 three-stall stable there should be three; and two in 

 each two-stall stable. On these racks are put aside 

 the seven-pound saddles which the boys ride on to 

 exercise, and the pegs are for the bridles and dressing 

 muzzles. Nor do I see why boys in racing stables 

 should not be called upon to pay a little more attention 

 to the cleaning of the irons of their exercise saddles 

 and bridles, than they were accustomed to do in my 

 juvenile days. 



At the back part of each three and four-stall stable, 

 there should be in one corner, a corn bin, and in the 

 other, a hay crib. These bins and cribs should be of 

 the same dimensions, measuring in height from the 

 ground three feet, the front part of them projecting 

 from the centre of the walls two feet six. Each bin 

 should be divided into two compartments, the one for 

 corn, and the other for beans. In front of each corn 

 bin a trap-door should be made, a foot and a half 



