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Ponies past and present

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Sir Walter Gilbey
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The book surveys the origins, regional varieties, and practical uses of British ponies, tracing their descent from half-wild woodland stock and explaining legal, historical, and husbandry influences on their development. It profiles specific types — New Forest, Welsh, Exmoor and Dartmoor, Cumberland and Westmorland, Connemara, Scottish and Shetland — describing conformation, temperament, and traditional habitats. Sections examine breeding practices, management, and temperamental and physical traits that suit ponies for riding, driving, and emerging roles such as polo, with practical advice for breeders and owners and illustrations that highlight typical forms and uses.

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.

Elsenham Hall, Essex,
August, 1900.