The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-18
HORSE TRAINING IN ENGLAND.
English Sys.em BssI and RelIihla Than lhs
fmsrIcal ne,hoi.

Horses I'm England are never trained
on race tracks as they are in this eoun-
try. but on breezy downs. wide moors
and secluded commons. far from the
larger towns Though more expensive
as II necessitates the keeping I'm order
of innumerable exercise gallops, this
system Is undoubtedly better and
healthier for horses than our own.
The nearest approach TO our system
Is at Newmarket. the turf metropolis
but. though fully one-half the race
horses IN England are quartered I'm and
about that town, they are divided
among hfty-one trainers each OF whom
has an entirely separate establishment,
while the heath, on which are the ex-
ercise gallops, owned by the Jockey
club, is over two square miles in eN-
tent. Outside of Newmarket there are
no less than "a different places where
traing Is carried on. These are situated
In fifteen different counties, ana the
total number OF stables located at them
~ ITO. In the south, Sussex has eight
training grounds. at which % stables
IN all are located.
Surrey has only EPSON, but noe less
man fourteen trainers exercise their
strings over these suburban downs.
Hampshire has five grounds. accomo-
dating seven stables. ON the seven
grounds in Willis eleven strings take
their daily work. Berks has six train
ing quarters, at which seventeen sta
Dies are located and Dorset two with
TWO stables at each.
In the midlands Gloucestershire. OK
yorkshire, Rutland. Staffordshire, Herts
and shropshire -AlNa-eFln- -sFpllpd- each,
with eleven stables I'm all using them.
I'm the north there areonly seven train
ing grounds, six of which boasting OF
twenty-three stables. are I'm Yorkshire.
and one, with one stable i'm Cumber-
land. There are only two stables
trained in Scotland, both OF which are
situated at Ayr.
These i5l different stables shelter some
5000 horses. exclusive OF yearlings.
Many OF the establishments. especially
at Newmarket, are very large, and al
most palatial in their fittings and sur
roundings. Some of them are private
property. reserved for the horses OF
their owner and his Intimate friends,
but most OF them are occupied by pub
lie trainers, some of whom train as
many as 100 horses for n score or more
different owners their charges varying
from $40 To $3.50 week.
The Prince OF Wales himself does not
employ a private trainer. his horses be-
ing unuef the CnarRe or DICK MafSn OF
Egerton house, Newmarket, who trains
for half dozen other owners as well.
The exercise grounds are invariably
turf, carefully rolled and leveled. on
Newmarket heath they are mostly fiat,
but all through the southern counties.
where they are situated on rolling
downs. the gallops are always more or
less up and down hill. All the larger
establishments are provided with gal
lops built OF spent tanbark for use when
the ground is hard. many of which are
entirely under cover The smaller sta
bles have To be content with straw beds
on which 10 exercise when the ground
rs frozen. which. in the south at least.
is seldom the case frost never inter-
fering with training operations for
fff.ere-thsif week two during the
winter.
At one time the Yorkshire stables
more than held their southern com
petitors in regard TO the number of win
ners OF great races they sent forth, but
this has not been the case of late years
most of the richer prizes having fallen
20 horses trained at Newmarket south
OF the Thames.