upon the authority of another expert, on page 58 ;, or that the 

 Horse-Breeding Department was subordinate to the Army 

 Remount Department : this, he says, has certainly not been 

 the case for many years. Neither does he understand that any 

 attempt has been made to combine the two, as stated on 

 page 59. " The Army Remount Department purchase what 

 they find at the market ; the Civil Veterinary Department 

 endeavours to supply that market ; but it has a free hand to 

 do it in its own way." 



In Sir John's opinion our endeavour to create an Anglo- 

 Indian type of horse capable of reproducing itself can never 

 succeed ; the endeavour has been persevered in for a century, 

 has failed, and will fail ; " for we are fighting against nature, 

 and nature will beat us in the long run." This is simply a 

 more pointed way of saying what I have asserted as a general 

 principle on page 59 — i.e., that "climate and the prevailing 

 normal conditions of life are paramount in determining what 

 the size and character of the horse of any given country shall 

 be." Sir John Watson, if I understand him rightly, is 

 opposed to the importation of English stock altogether, as he 

 asserts that " English and Asiatic blood will never mingle with 

 advantage." 



Holding these views, he is firm in the belief that the 

 present system of Indian horse-breeding is radically wrong and 

 doomed to failure. 



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