AND TRAINING OF THE ENGLISH RACE-HORSE. 5 IT 
and rode him in his exercise. Subsequent residence in different stables 
a Honied fresh information; and, on the approach of manhood, Mr. • 
the stables, and went as a groom to a gentleman who kept hunteis. At the 
a o- e of thirty Mr. Deleft his master, on account of the latter going abioad, 
and the following incident brought him into the veterinary profession 
“ A horse belonging to the above-mentioned gentleman having fallen 
lame at this period, it was thought advisable to send the animal to the 
Veterinary College, to which place I took him. Observing here a largo 
establishment for the treatment and cure of diseased ^ 0I ?5 S ’ s a '^Jj a ^ e g 
heard so much of the value of the veterinary art, I asked Mr. Sewell whe¬ 
ther I could be admitted into the College as a pupil; to which he replied in 
the affirmative, observing, at the same time, that men of the description of 
mvself were the most Jit persons to become veterinary surgeons. I remained 
ii/lhe College as a pupil for about two years, after which I passed my exa- 
initiation, and received my diploma. 
Mr. Darvill obtained his present appointment, as Veterinary 
Surgeon to the 7th Dragoons, through Sir Hussey Vivian, who 
knew him in the capacity of groom to an officer of that regiment. 
« This first part” of his work, Mr. D. commences with the 
subject of the erection and construction of stables for training; 
and, though it is not the most interesting, still it is a part not to 
be overlooked. He never saw any stables that he “ could con¬ 
sider in every respect as being perfectly complete.” 
If the stables cannot be built upon the training ground, still they should 
not be erected far off. Wet weather, and the fact of many racers being bad 
roadsters, render a mile, or even half a mile, too great a distance, they 
ought to stand upon a dry level surface, and face the south. 
Referring our reader for all detail of the structuie to the woik 
itself, we merely wish to state here 
That the plan consists of a centre building, or house for the grooms, and 
two lone wings, extended laterally from it, divided into four and two-stall 
stables and boxes, which have all separate outer doors, but communicate by 
side-doors within. Over the stables are the sitting-rooms and chambers for 
the groom and boys. Behind his building is another of equal extent, but 
of only one story, containing straw and hay-barns, granary, offices, &c.; and 
behind this rear range are seven paddocks, parted by walls, which are all 
banked round, “ to prevent colts, apt to range wildly about, from injuring 
themselves.” The paddocks are entered by doors from loose boxes in the 
back building; and all communicate by doors in the parting walls. 
The stables ought to be twelve feet in interior height, and the walls of 
them of sufficient thickness to keep out the heat of summer and cold ot 
winter. Each stall requires to be ten feet long and six feet broad, in the 
clear, but not wider, for then the horse would stand across it. No racing 
stable should consist of more than four stalls; it seldom happening that there 
are more than four horses in the same class If the whole of the wood work 
is not of oak, at least the racks, manger-rails, cnbbmg-boards, and the first 
six planks, ought to be. The rack-chains should be sufficiently long to admit 
the horse to reach every part of his manger. 1 he rack should be placed in 
the near corner, resting upon the top rail of the manger: it should measure 
eighteen inches in height, and the same in breadth,—from its most prominent 
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