51 6 MEETS OF COACHES CH. XXIV 



on certain race-courses, to have places specially set 

 apart for coaches, those for the Clubs separated from 

 those for other coaches. At Jerome Park, in the old 

 race days, the grassy slope at the foot of the Club 

 House was reserved for coaches, and was a gay point 

 of rendezvous on that most beautiful of courses. 



On several Entrlish courses each Club has its 

 special enclosure, opposite the Grand Stand, and 

 the penalty attached to a non-appearance at the 

 established Meets of the Club is exclusion from this 

 enclosure. Eighty or ninety coaches, including 

 those of the Clubs, are often drawn up in a line, 

 opposite the Grand Stand, at Ascot. 



A few words as to the disposition of a coach on a 

 race-course or at any other gathering, such as a 

 horse-show, a cricket-match or polo-match, will not 

 be out of place here. 



The coach should be driven as nearly as possible 

 to its place, the leaders occupying the spot on which 

 the coach is finally to stand ; the leaders' traces 

 are unhooked, the AW-reins thrown down, and the 

 leaders moved out of the way. The bars are taken 

 off of the pole-head and laid on the ground at one 

 side, and the coach is drawn forward as far as pos- 

 sible by the wheelers ; the pole-chains are slackened, 

 the wheel-traces taken off of the roller-bolts and the 

 wheel-reins thrown down. The chains are unhooked 

 from the kidney-link rings, one end being left hooked 

 to the pole-head, the pole is withdrawn and the wheel 



