PONIES PAST AND PRESENT
BY SIR WALTER GILBEY, Bart.
ILLUSTRATED
VINTON & CO., Ltd., 9, NEW BRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E.C.
1900
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| INTRODUCTION | [1] |
| The New Forest Pony | [11] |
| The Welsh Pony | [25] |
| The Exmoor and Dartmoor Ponies | [38] |
| The Cumberland and Westmoreland Ponies | [53] |
| Ireland—The Connemara Pony | [63] |
| The Ponies of Scotland and The Shetland Islands | [71] |
| Uses and Characteristics of the Pony | [87] |
| Breeding Polo Ponies | [97] |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| The Shooting Pony | [Frontispiece] |
| To face page | |
| The Pony Hack | [25] |
| Little Wonder II. | [59] |
| Child’s Shetland Pony | [82] |
| “Princess Victoria in her Pony Phaeton” | [87] |
| The First Leap | [89] |
| Arab “Mesaoud” | [104] |
| The Polo Pony “Sailor” | [110] |
The increasing attention which during the last few years has been devoted to breeding ponies for various purposes, more especially for polo, suggested the collection of facts relating to our half-wild races of ponies. It will be seen from the following pages that we possess large supplies of small but strong and sound constitutioned horses which may be turned to far more valuable account than has been done hitherto. The Polo Pony Society set the example of drawing attention to the possibilities of utilising profitably the Moorland and Forest Mares, and it is hoped that these pages may be of some interest to those who are giving attention to pony breeding whether for polo or for any other purpose.