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nerally on an extensive scale, they appropriate a cer- 

 tain portion of them for their race-horses to stand in. 

 Although their stables may be very good, and such as 

 I have described, yet for many reasons, this is a bad 

 plan ; the farther their race-horse stables are from those 

 of their hunters and hacks, the better. As the ex- 

 pense can be but of little importance to gentlemen of 

 foitune, I should advise their being built on a con- 

 venient piece of groud, at least half-a-dozen miles 

 from their mansion. One reason for this is, that the 

 boys could not so easily talk to their neighbouring 

 companions, of what they see or know of the horses 

 when they are training. I should also recommend 

 noblemen and gentlemen of the turf, in erecting their 

 training stables, to build loose boxes for most of their 

 horses. Any number of them might be arranged ac- 

 cording to the establishment of horses kept, on the 

 dimensions of twenty-two feet by thirteen, clear of the 

 walls ; and if fitted up as I have directed, a box or 

 two, as occasion may require, (for such horses as may 

 tlo better in stalls) may, with little expense, be con- 

 verted into a one or two good stall-stable. 



Men vary in their opinions on the management of 

 horses, as they do on other things, and, as I am an 

 advocate for loose boxes (for horses of a certain class), 

 in preference to stall-stables, it may not be here much 

 out of place, to assign my reasons for that preference, 

 and to shew in what instances I recommend the use of 

 the one rather than the other. Horses which are valu- 

 able, good runners, such as are engaged at Newmarket, 



