100 ON TRAINING GROUNDS. 



to run at Malton, they can take the last sweat or two 

 ov er it, with a view to give them a knowledge of the 

 course, provided that the ground is not too hard. 

 Stables and water upon these wolds would be of great 

 advantage to them ; for the want of both of these, the 

 horses, after taking their gallops, have to cross the road 

 down the hill, going a short distance along the .vale to 

 water; they then return to the bottom of the hill, lead- 

 ing up to the race-ground. The hill being very steep, 

 they canter gently up it after their water, leaving the 

 rubbing house to the left, and pull up by the side of 

 the course. All inconveniences of this kind would be 

 avoided were there stables and water on the ground. 



MiDDLEHAM MooRS (for there are two) is the third 

 training ground. Tlie lower moor lies adjacent to the 

 town and stables ; it is a convenient piece of ground 

 for the horses to exercise on in winter ; or indeed they 

 may in summer take short gallops : but thei*e is too 

 much sideland ground, with too many ascents and de- 

 scents on this lower moor for long striding horses to go 

 here, either in their gallops or sweats, at a telling pace. 

 The upper mobr, although the smallest, affords by far 

 the best, and indeed very good galloping ground, but the 

 sweating ground here is rather too confined. Long 

 striding horses, sweating here, are almost constantly 

 turning, as it is not more than a mile, or at the farthest, 

 a mile and a quarter round ; yet this piece of ground, 

 might, with a little expense, be made sufficiently ex- 

 tensive for horses of every description to sweat over, at 

 a good sweating pace. If this were done, these moors 



