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About the New Forest Breed
.Of Britain’s nine mountain and moorland
breeds, the New Forest Pony is, with the exception of the Highland,
the largest. Its ancestry, as in the case of the other breeds,
is uncertain, and based largely on conjecture, although in the
days of Canute mention is made of wild horses living in the
Forest. That such have existed continuously since those days
there can be no doubt.
Today the New Forest Pony is allowed to roam at will over some
60,000 acres of forest in Hampshire, though in fact there is
little to denote a forest, for the land is mostly bare of trees
and offers the poorest pasture to the ponies, consisting in
the main of heather and poor or rank glass. This has much effect
on them, causing them to be hardy and economical feeders when
brought off the Forest to ‘family’ life. The breed
has been subject to a considerable amount of ‘improving’
by various breeds, and Queen Victoria in 1852 lent an Arab stallion,
‘Zorah’, which was in the Forest for eight years.
Not for several decades have alien stallions been turned out
there, and the pony is now of a definite type, and increasingly,
it would appear, breeds true to it. ‘Marske’, the
sire of ‘Eclipse’, was kept by a farmer in the New
Forest district for four years, 1765-1769, until ‘Eclipse’
became famous.
The New Forest ponies, as with other native breeds, play a most
important part as foundation stock. Bred to survive the constant
struggle for existence, they develop an acute sense of intelligence,
courage and resource. They are used to picking their way over
rough ground and are consequently very sure-footed. Accustomed
to seeing the traffic along the roads on the verges of which
they constantly graze, they become immune to every kind of road
terror and make the safest possible mount for children when
properly broken-in. The poor quality of the grazing and the
fact of living out in every kind of weather provide them with
constitutions of iron.
Owing to parts of the New Forest being largely a health and
pleasure resort, the pony, though running wild, is less shy
of mankind than other mountain and moorland breeds, and in consequence,
is much in demand.
Description: The New Forest can be any colour except piebald
or skewbald, and is a good riding type of pony. The head is
well set on and the neck a little short from throat to chest,
but the good, laid back shoulder gives plenty of length of rein.
The back is short and the loins and quarters strong; tail is
well set on, though not exaggeratedly high; the forearm and
second thigh good, short cannon bones and good feet. The pony
should have plenty of bone and straight but not exaggerated
action. There are two sizes:
Type A: Ponies up to 13.2 hands, lighter in bone than the larger
ones; ideal as children’s hunting ponies; with quality.
Type B: 13.2 hands up to 14.2 hands, with plenty of bone and
substance: a strong type of pony able to carry adults.
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Insurance for horse breeds Index:
Arab
| Akhal-Teke
| Albino
| American
Quarter | American
Saddle | Andalusian
| Anglo-Arab
| Anglo-Arab
in France | Anglo-Kabarda
| Anglo-Norman
| Appaloosa
| Ardennes
| Australian
(Waler) | Austrian
| Balearic
| Barb
| Basuto
| Batak/Deli
| Beberbeck
| Beetwk
| Boulonnais
| Brabancon
| Breton
| Budyonovsky
| Burmese
(Shan) | Camargue
| Caspian
| Charollais
Half-bred | Cleveland
Bay | Clydesdale
| Cob
(Riding) | Connemara
| Criollo
| Dales
| Danish
| Danubian
| Dartmoor
| Donsky
| Dutch
Draught | East
Bulgarian | Exmoor
| Falabella
| Fell
| Flemish
| French
Thoroughbred | Friesian
| Galiceno
| Gelderland
| Gidran
and Nonius | Gothland
| Groningen
| Gudbrandsdal
| Hack
| Hackney
Horse | Hackney
Pony | Hafflinger
| Hanoverian
| Highland
| Holstein
| Hungarian
Shagya | Hunter
| Iceland
| Iomud
| Italian
| Jutland
| Kabarda
| Karabair
and Lokai | Karabakh
| Kathiawari
and Marwari | Klepper
| Knabstrup
| Konik
| Latvian
| Limousin
(Half-bred) | Lipizzaner
| Manipur
| Mecklenburg
| Mongolian
| Morgan
| Mustang
| New
Forest | Norwegian-Fjord
| Oldenburg
| Orlov
| Palomino
| Percheron
| Persian
| Pinto
| Pleven
| Polish
Arab | Polish
Half-bred | Polish
Thoroughbred | Rhenish
| Russian
Saddle | Russian
Steppe | Russian
Thoroughbred | Scandinavian
| Schleswig
| Shetland
| Shire
| Spanish
| Spiti
and Bhutia | Standard
Bred | Strelets
| Suffolk
| Swedish
| Tarpan
| Tennessee
Walking Horse | Tersky
| Thoroughbred
| Timor
Pony | Trakehner
| Turk
| Ukrainian
| Vendéen-Charentais
Half-bred | Viatka
| Welsh
Cob | Welsh
Mountain and Welsh Pony | Zeeland
Horse | Zemaitukas
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