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slight but yet well-formed mare of fourteen hands 

 two inches and a half; the chances here, with make 

 on both sides, are ten times as much against a sym- 

 metrical produce as if the height had been the other 

 way, and a very fine,, substantial, well-built stallion 

 of fourteen hands two and a half inches had been put 

 to a rather slight but yet well-formed mare of fifteen 

 hands: these last may, with some little propriety, be 

 termed nearly even-sized horses. The only true 

 method of increasing the size of the Indian horse, 

 and at the same time insuring symmetry, is never 

 to allow more than an inch and a half difference 

 in the height, and only that under the restrictions 

 just mentioned. An indifferent point in the stallion 

 must also always be met by a very superior one 

 in the mare, and vice versa ; but the cardinal points 

 of both must be perfect, or there will be no improve- 

 ment in the breed worth speaking of. This is attend- 

 ed with no difficulty, and very little expense, when 

 choosing half and three parts bred horses. There are 

 hundred to be had: good feeding and proper care of 

 the colts and fillies would then in a very short time 

 amply repay an establishment. English, Arab, and 

 Kattywar horses and mares, judiciously chosen and 

 crossed, would, in five generations, or thirty years, 

 yield a breed that would pay a hundred per cent. ; 

 but when a huge, faulty stallion, whether thorough- 

 bred, passing for thorough-bred, or half-bred, is put 

 to a coarse, country, drooping-quartered, and per- 

 haps crooked-legged mare, and this mare two or three 

 inches smaller than the stallion/'" what can Be ex- 



* Professor Coleman stated in his lectures ( I have not seen it in priut ), that 

 trying to increase the size of the Indian horses by crossing with the large 

 English stallions was ruination to the breed, and that no well-proportioned 

 foals could be expected. 



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