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of hills for the horses occasionally to work upon, and 

 the greater also will be the* variety of soft and cool 

 bottoms for them to walk or gallop on in the evenings 

 during the heat of the summer. 



The downs adjacent to the town of Newmarket, still 

 afford a variety of tiaining and running ground, and in 

 my juvenile days when an exercise boy here, they were 

 much more extensive ; but a great portion of the downs 

 on the left and right of the road, leading to Bourn- 

 bridge, has been enclosed for some years past. On the 

 west side of the town, to the right of the Cambridge 

 road, are the different courses, which are kept in excel- 

 lent order. There is also good ground here for the 

 horses that stand at this end of the town to take their 

 gallops on, along the flat by the side of the ditch, and 

 home up the Cambridge hill ; and over the flat the 

 whole of the horses can sweat, without injuring the 

 courses ; coming home round the turn of the lands on 

 the lower side of the B.C. to the King's rubbing house 

 to scrape. On the east side of the town is the Warren 

 hill. This is the principal training ground for the 

 horses that stand at this part of the town to take their 

 gallops on. In the valley at the bottom of this hill, 

 round the gorse, there was some good walking exercise 

 ground ; and there is also some adapted for a similar 

 purpose, on what is called the cricket ground, on the 

 left of the high road leading to Bury. From the valley 

 up the Warren hill, there is every description of gallop 

 to be had for the horses that is requisite, as the seve- 

 rity of each can be regulated by tlie length and pace. 



