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Welsh Mountain and Welsh Pony
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About the Welsh Mountain and Welsh Pony Breed
.One of the most popular and thought by most
people to be the most beautiful of Britain’s mountain
and moorland ponies, the Welsh Mountain Pony claims an existence
so remote as to be incalculable. It is truly indigenous to the
soil it has so long graced and on which it has thrived so well,
in spite of the great hardships it has endured with the passing
of the seasons. Today it is still there, on the Welsh mountains
and wastes wild or semi-wild, but always a potential joy to
a riding child or to the small tradesman as an honest worker
between the shafts. The very nature of its ancestry and upbringing
gives it those priceless qualities of intelligence, pluck, soundness
and endurance for which it is so justly famed.
The Welsh Mountain Pony, though so small in height, performs
really remarkable feats of strength and endurance, for it carries
full-grown men without any apparent effort and certainly with
no ill effects. As a children’s riding pony it is very
prominent, very popular and in the show ring is most successful.
The classic beauty of its head and the charming carriage of
its tail, coupled with the generous centrepiece and quarters,
give it an advantage over most other breeds.
It is claimed for the breed that the native pony mares of Wales
had much to do with the breeding, in the very early days of
the English Thoroughbred. It is at least certain, however, that
the pony was much used for producing the polo pony, the Hackney
and the Hunter, and by no means the least important, the hardy
and active Welsh Cob.
The ponies are to be found fairly well scattered throughout
the less populated parts of Wales. Owing to their small stature,
they have in the past been in great demand in the coal-mines,
but with the closure of such mines, the demand is more now for
children’s riding ponies.
Welsh Mountain: not exceeding 12 hands. General characteristics:
hardy, spirited and pony-like. Colour: any colour, except piebald
or skewbald. Head, small, clean-cut, well set-on and tapering
to the muzzle. Eyes, bold. Ears well placed, small and pointed,
well up on the head, proportionately close. Nostrils, prominent
and open. Jaws and throat clean and finely cut, with ample room
at the angle of the jaw. Neck, lengthy, well-carried and moderately
clean in the case of mares, but inclined to be cresty in the
case of matured stallions. Shoulders, long and sloping well
back. Withers, moderately fine, but not ‘knify’.
The humorous upright so that the foreleg is not set in under
the body. Forelegs, set square and true, and not tied in at
the elbows; long strong forearms; well-developed knee, short
flat bone below knee; pasterns of proportionate slope and length;
feet, well shaped and round; hoofs, dense. Back and loins, muscular,
strong and well coupled. Girth deep. Ribs well sprung. Hindquarters
lengthy and fine. Not cobby, ragged or goose-rumped. Tail well
set on sand carried gaily. Hind legs, hocks to be large, flat
and clean with points prominent, to turn neither inwards nor
outwards; the hind leg not to be too bent; the hock not to be
set behind a line from the point of the quarter to the fetlock
joint; pasterns of proportionate slope and length; feet well-shaped;
hoofs dense. Action quick, free and straight from the shoulder,
well away in the front, hocks well flexed, with straight and
powerful leverage and well under the body.
Welsh Pony: not exceeding 13.2 hands high. The above description
applies to the Welsh Pony also, but more particularly the Pony
shall be described as a riding pony, with quality, riding action,
adequate bone and substance, hardiness and constitution, and
with pony character.
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