altogether leads the reader to expect. They refer to the 

 increasing difficulty of procuring suitable Thoroughbred horses, 

 and to the defects and the great expense of the stock got by 

 Thoroughbreds ; but they recommend the use of Thoroughbred 

 stalhons to be continued in the proportion of six in ten, the 

 remaining four to be Arabs. 



The most important point that invites attention, however, 

 is this : in certain States of India there exists breeds of horses 

 which are pure, which the natives strive to maintain pure, 

 and are, in the judgment of the Commissioners, well worth 

 preserving in their purity. They say : " The Kathiawari, 

 Marwari, Baluchi and Unmool breeds are pure, and may be 

 used as safely and hopefully as Arabs." 



The Commissioners, in the body of their report, urge that 

 the peoples of Kathiawar, Marwar, Baluchistan, and the 

 Northern Punjaub should be encouraged to breed horses, and 

 that the Indian Government should purchase the best stallions 

 of these breeds for stud purposes. And here, as I venture to 

 think, they indicate the line of policy which the Indian 

 Government should adopt. The mistake — one mistake — has 

 been, as Sir John Watson points out, the system of treating 

 all the different Indian breeds of horse as one, ignoring the 

 fact which the Commissioners now emphasise, that there is 

 excellent material to our hand in certain parts of the country, 

 if only we use it in the right way. 



These Kathiawari, Marwari, Baluchi and Unmool breeds 

 offer sources of supply which, all the best authorities are 

 agreed, would furnish the mounted arms in India with horses 

 of the kind required, and that as Nature designed them, 

 without the admixture of Thoroughbred blood, which has 

 proved, during recent years at all events, of very doubtful 

 advantage. 



The suggested purchase of young stock from native 

 breeders and their maintenance on large tracts of Government 

 land until of an age to be issued as Remounts has much to 

 recommend it. 



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