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not think that I can do better than give my 

 own experience in this matter. I was brought 

 up among horses in Ireland, did a fair amount 

 of riding school w^ork during three years at 

 the Royal Military Academy and during six 

 years as a subaltern in a field battery, and 

 spent several years training, racing, and 

 steeplechasing in India, through the entire 

 course of which time I became more and more 

 impressed with the consciousness of my 

 ignorance about horses. Being anxious to 

 remedy this deficiency, and being then in 

 the Bengal Staff Corps, I utilised my furlough 

 on different occasions to go home and study 

 at a veterinary college, with the result that I 

 took my diploma not long after I left the 

 Army. I am glad to say that my time was 

 well spent, because I learned at the college 



