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CHAPTER 11. 



gentlemen's private training stables. 



The stables of our noblemen and gentlemen, are 

 most of them uniformly built, some of them forming 

 very neat squares. In erecting them, there is generally 

 a space of ground reserved in the front or centre of 

 the building, which forms a convenient stable-yard, 

 with a reservoir of water in the centre. Such stables 

 for hunters, carriage-horses, and hacks, are commo- 

 diously arranged, and are so lofty, that when properly 

 ventilated, they readily admit of a free circulation of 

 pure air, which, at the present day, is tolerably well 

 understood to be highly essential to the health of all 

 animals in a domesticated state. 



Many noblemen and gentlemen who keep race- 

 horses, keep their own private training grooms. If 

 they have ground in their own park or downs, near 

 enough to their own houses, that will answer the pur- 

 pose for their horses to train upon, — some prefer hav- 

 ing them trained at home; and as their stables are ge- 



