CHAPTER V. 



FIRST CLASS OF HORSES AND MARES RETURNING FROM 

 A summer's running to THE HOME STABLES', 

 THE ARRANGING OF THOSE HORSES AND MARES 

 IN THEIR boxes; AND THE TREATMENT OF THEM 

 THEREIN DURING THE THREE WINTER MONTHS. 



Most of our racing meetings are over by the 

 end of September, the few which are run in 

 October are conchided by the end of that month, 

 with the occasional exception of the Newmarket 

 meetings, and one or two others. The various 

 number of plate horses, which have been en- 

 gaged during the summer in running at the dif- 

 ferent meetings, as also in travelling from one 

 meeting to the other, return in the autumn to 

 their different home stables to winter. Some 

 of them are taken for this purpose to the private 

 stables of their owners, and others to the public 

 training stables of the different trainers. 



