ON TRAINING GROUNDS. 18U 



and from the stables on tlie right of the high ioa(], 

 there are three or four gates to be opened for the horses 

 to pass through : besides which, they have to ascend a 

 steep hill, previous to their getting on the training 

 ground. When they do get to it, it is certainly good, 

 being well diversified as to hill and vale. It is prin- 

 cipally covered with short heather, intermixed with 

 some moss, which gives to its surface great elasticity, 

 so that there can be but little or no concussion in the 

 feet of horses which are here in training. This 

 ground is sufficiently extensive for training any rea- 

 sonable number of horses. As the horses come to it, 

 they walk from the high road down the vale, turning 

 to the right, between Highfields and the Grimstone 

 hills. There are some good short gallops up these 

 hills, finishing at the top near the quickset hedge. 

 These gallops answer very well to set the horses on 

 their legs, before they take the long ones. As the 

 horses walk back down the hills into the vale at the 

 bottom, near to the gate leading to Settrington, they 

 can, by commencing here, and keeping on the edge 

 or side of the heather, leaving the Grimstone hills on 

 the left, and high fields on the right, have a good long 

 gallop up to the top of the hill near the road where 

 they are pulled up. In this same direction is a good 

 green gallop, which the horses can occasionally go on 

 in winter, or at any time that it is in good order. There 

 is also plenty of room on this ground for the horses to 

 sweat, pulling up within a short distance of the rub- 

 bing house ; or for any such horses as may be going 



