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With the science available to the Cambridge University Veterinary School it would be impossible to kidnap Shergar and significantly profit by it other than from the ransom sum. Progeny? Forget it - they would be easy to trace.

We have a whole industry in Newmarket that needs the school open but long professional courses are easy targets for closure because they necessarily spend less time producing research papers and much more on inculcating practical skills.

Government funding follows research more than practical development though.

Government has for too long grouped research with development but they are quite separate strands today - Britain is still brilliant in research but near useless now in development. Practical disciplines, like veterinary science, stitch the two back together naturally.

The science of LEDs was down to Cambridge but the hard work of development was put in by South Korea producing a world leading screen industry.

Britain generally now eschews the hard work of development.

These closures of practical disciplines have some history of not happening at Cambridge University - some years ago the Department of Architecture was due for scaling back but that did not happen.

Architecture and veterinary science are the professions with the longest academic training and, in practice, the broadest overview because they must have enough knowledge of all the sub-disciplines they use, like civil engineering and pharmacology, to not let these pull the blinkers over their eyes. At the end of the day they must ensure a vet school is on sound ground and the animals of sound wind whichever way the wind of the day blows.

So that offers some hope for the vet school.