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and hub-bub incident to "rubbing out" others, etc. I 

 have no doubt that many a nervous horse has lost his 

 race by reason of this one thing. So the better plan is 

 to have a separate box-stall for each horse by himself. 

 They should be ten feet wide and sixteen feet deep ; and 

 four feet from the door there should be a movable cross- 

 bar made of a scantling. The partitions should be made 

 of plank. The door should be double, so the lower por- 

 tion could be closed and the upper left open when de- 

 sired. There should be a window at the rear of each 

 stall and a ventilator in the roof. (The ventilator can 

 be built immediately over the partition and do duty for 

 two stalls at once.) The stalls should be built in rows 

 and have one loft, partitioned for hay and straw, for 

 every twenty stalls, and a shed roof should be built the 

 entire front of the row. 



The Ticket System. 



"Ah, there's the rub" and a matter of the gravest 

 consideration to every track manager. There should be 

 four different colored single daily admission tickets, or 

 a different color for each day, for both the gate and grand 

 stand. The badges should be of two kinds, one for com- 

 plimentaries and owners and drivers, the other a season 

 badge, good for the whole meeting, to be sold at reduced 

 rates. These badges should have daily coupons attached. 

 Now the duty of the gate-men is simply to take up these 

 daily admission tickets and coupons and drop them into 

 the small aperture of the locked ticket-boxes provided 

 for that purpose ; yet, simple as that duty is, he who goes 

 through the boxes after a meeting, to count the tickets 

 and balance results, will discover anything from a fine- 

 tooth comb to a pair of suspenders, which have been 



