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About the Dartmoor Breed
.The rugged waste of Dartmoor, in the extreme
south-west of England, with its grim and towering tors, its
rock-strewn slopes and forbidding bogs – offering at best
but the poorest feed, would hardly commend itself to the uninformed
as a suitable ground for feeding ponies; yet here are bred the
famous Dartmoor ponies. Here for centuries unknown the Dartmoor
has lived and multiplied, while watchful and wise Nature has
seen to it that only the fittest survived. Thus it happens that,
in common with the other mountain and moorland breeds of the
British Isles, a pony, quite indigenous and quite distinctive,
roams this bleak countryside in a practically wild state, breeding
and literally, when the land is mantled in snow, scratching
for an existence. These ponies remain entirely un-handled unless
rounded up for sale, and few of the mares and still fewer stallions
ever have a hand laid on them except for branding purposes.
Essentially a riding pony, the Dartmoor, if handled young, makes
as good a riding pony as can be found, and in size and conformation
is much akin to its neighbour the Exmoor, both of which breeds
can make a long-honoured claim to be good ponies for the young.
Nevertheless, in spite of their small size, they are up to a
surprising amount of weight; yet fashion and a misguided prejudice
degrees that as soon as a child grows any leg of length, a pony
inches higher must be procured.
The Dartmoor is a good-looking pony, compact, the best of them
conforming well to the accepted standard of any riding horse
or pony, being possessed also of a certain elegance which is
very pleasing. It is long-lived, and will see a big family of
children through from oldest to youngest and then give good
service when passed on to another household. As with all the
mountain and moorland breeds of the British Isles, the pure
bred Dartmoor is invaluable as foundation stock, as the records
of many of them have shown times without number. Bred up from
these excellent foundation ponies, as well as from the Exmoor
and Welsh Mountain ponies, hunters, hacks and children’s
ponies have appeared as prize-winners on countless occasions
and at the most important shows throughout the length and breadth
of the British Isles.
Description: Height, not exceeding 12.2 hands. Colour, bay,
black or brown preferred, but no colour bar except Piebalds
and Skewbalds. Excessive white to be discouraged. Head should
be small, well set on and blood-like. Ears, very small and alert.
Neck, strong, but not too heavy, and neither long nor short
– Stallions, moderate crest. Back, loins and hindquarters,
strong and well covered with muscle. Feet, tough and well shaped.
Action: low, free, typical hack or riding action. Tail, set
high and full.
For some long while past breeders of the Dartmoor Pony have
suffered a period of great anxiety. Up to perhaps the early
days of the last century the habitat of the pony was roamed
by the true Dartmoor Pony. To meet the need for very small ponies
to work in the mines, certain moormen, without regard to the
retention of the pure breed, introduced Shetland stallions indiscriminately
to the moors. The result was that the Dartmoor-Shetland cross
obtained a very strong footing, and as such cross-breeding was
carried out in a very haphazard way many small ponies of mostly
indifferent, and sometimes degenerate, type, multiplied to the
exclusion of the true Dartmoor.
The Dartmoor Pony Society, The British Horse Society and others
have made strenuous efforts to remove this trouble, but it seems
that even the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is powerless
in the matter. It is to the credit of the Society and a few
individual breeders that they have in small numbers retained
the purity of the breed. It is now bred in considerable numbers
outside the confines of Dartmoor.
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