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Doncaster or Epsom, but more particularly such of 

 those horses as may be required to be in strong work, 

 are the horses which will benefit most by being kept 

 in loose boxes. The objection that is made to the use 

 of them is, that when country plate horses are travel- 

 ling, boxes are not often to be met with at inns on the 

 road, neither are they at all times to be had at many 

 of the inns where horses go to stand at the different 

 country meetings ; and that horses which have been 

 accustomed to sleep in loose boxes, do not do so well 

 when standing in stalls. This is correct: but the ob- 

 jection is more than counterbalanced by the advantages 

 that arise. It would be attended with very little ex- 

 pense to landlords, on such roads as race-horses gene- 

 rally travel, and at such other inns, near to the different 

 race-courses at which the horses stand, were they to 

 arrange in their stable-yards a certain number of loose 

 boxes ; this would be a great accommodation to noble- 

 men and gentlemen of the turf, and would be but a 

 triding inconvenience to a landlord, as such boxes, 

 when not wanted for race-horses, might, with very 

 little trouble, be converted into a bail stable, for a pair 

 of })ost horses. Were such accommodations as these 

 to ])e had at inns, there could be no objection made to 

 certain race-horses standing in loose boxes at all times ; 

 but even the objection above stated, is not to be put in 

 competition with the advantages which horses derive 

 from being kept in boxes, if it were only that of 

 avoiding the inconvenience arising from some horses 

 unnecessarily disturbing others on sweating days, or 



