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way, there is recommendation for households who 

 frequently find members in need of setting up, 

 and I suppose the equivalent for half a brick on 

 the head at my service for dreaming of a New- 

 market quarter not altogether for Newmarket 

 racing and training. 



Perhaps the half might be reduced to say a 

 brickbat, on my mentioning as one of the charms 

 of the said sanatorium the interest the patients 

 might get out of the training. Newmarket to 

 the person not concerned in expense, jj/^/ interested 

 in horses, stands by itself as offering free every 

 day, unless weather interrupts, a moving pano- 

 rama of the life of the high-metalled racer, leaving 

 out (though perchance you might find it, if you 

 care or can bear to look for it) the last scenes in 

 that eventful history as painfully depicted in the 

 old series of prints once so popular. From the 

 mighty stud-horse taking his walks abroad, and, 

 contrary to general idea, a marvel of well-bred 

 docility, with frequently strong affection for his 

 companion and attendant, to the little foal 

 gambolling at its mother's feet, tottery on legs, 

 which have had only a few hours' practice, you 

 can see the whole seven ages of the thorough- 

 bred. The two mentioned you must seek in 

 their proper places, but the older youngsters 

 being lunged, those broken to work at exercise, 

 strings of horses representing thousands and 

 thousands of pounds, cantering and practice- 

 galloping, with, almost every day in the season, 

 trials, undress rehearsals of hard races, are at the 

 onlooker's service. 



To many the actual racing ranks in attraction 

 but little before the operations of raising and 

 educating which appeal so strongly to lovers of 



