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respectively for wintet and summer work; or in other words, 
for wet and dry weather. As soon as the March winds set in, 
exercise may be started on the summer ground ; but rather 
than spoil it, in the event of a wet spring following, return to 
that set apart for winter. In this matter it is the weather 
rather than the season that must in all cases regulate the 
choice of ground ; and if one have to be overworked, let that 
one be the winter ground. 
For trial ground, the best should be selected and strictly 
appropriated to the one use; although there are occasions, 
when the ground is dry and little impression made by 
galloping, when it may be used if needful for ordinary work. 
When much galloping has rendered the surface of the ground 
uneven, most trainers have it bush harrowed and then rolled 
with a heavy roller to fill up the cavities and reduce the uneven 
surfaces. J cannot say that it is a plan I am enamoured 
of. Repeated rolling improves the appearance of the ground 
by levelling it, but unfortunately makes it hard, which is the 
one thing to be avoided; whereas my method, removing 
the turf by manual labour, levelling, and lightly treading in 
the turf when replaced, is infinitely better. In old times the 
boys in the stable used to do this, but now nothing would 
induce them to attempt it: soa few labourers in the spring, 
or as often as is necessary, may be engaged for the purpose ; 
and asa rule they do their work in a satisfactory way. 
Newmarket as a training ground is not inferior to any 
that I know of, and better than most. It has scope and 
other advantages to recommend it. Its worst feature is hard- 
ness in a dry summer ; but in both spring and autumn it has 
no superior. And if there are other places equal to it, by far 
the greater number are, taking all things into consideration, 
inferior; places on which scores and sometimes hundreds of 
