Dartmoor pony

Around the head, Dartmoor ponies are kept to graze.

The Dartmoor pony has a kind temperament, the ponies being reliable, gentle and calm.

During the summer, Dartmoor ponies roam the hills.

The Dartmoor Pony was used in medieval times for carrying heavy loads of tin from the mines across the moor.

The crest is the head of a Dartmoor Pony rising from a "Naval Crown".

The Dartmoor pony has lived in south-western England for centuries and is used for a variety of disciplines.

Piebald and skewbald colouring is not permitted within the Dartmoor Pony breed.

Two schemes have been introduced to halt the decline in numbers, and broaden the gene pool of the Dartmoor Pony.

The Dartmoor Pony has been granted Rare Breed status.

P. T. Deutermann, mystery writer, also owns a local Dartmoor pony breeding farm.

Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable.

Many different pony breeds were bred for small size, including the Shetland pony and the Dartmoor pony.

As much a part of the scenery as the granite tors are the Dartmoor ponies, and there are usually quite a few around the hut circles.

Dartmoor Pony Society (UK)

They presently live in Rockingham County, North Carolina, where they run a Dartmoor pony breeding farm.

The more common mammals include: Dartmoor ponies, rabbits, foxes, otters, badgers, grey squirrels, weasels, stoats, hares and deer.

When pony classes began in the early 1920s, breeders began crossing Welsh and Dartmoor ponies with small Thoroughbreds and Arabians.

Jack Spratt was a well-known figure in Teignmouth, riding his sturdy Dartmoor Pony and usually wrapped in his old weather-stained naval cloak.

Dartmoor ponies are native to Britain, but are also seen in other parts of the world including the USA, Continental Europe, New Zealand and Australia.

The couple spoke fondly of Spielberg inspecting their piglets and Dartmoor ponies: "He loved the animals and we found him to be a very easy person to be around.

The Dartmoor Hill Pony is classified as a pony born on Dartmoor, but not a purebred registered Dartmoor Pony.

It soon became an opportunity to show and sell other livestock - particularly locally-bred sheep and Dartmoor ponies, and by the 1920s it had also become a sports day for local schoolchildren.

Another cart, this one slightly larger and drawn by a pair of shaggy Dartmoor ponies, stopped just behind Dr. Pike's; and three people, two men and a woman, carefully got out.

In 2003 DNPA started to subsidise moorland farmers to keep Dartmoor Ponies in an attempt to save the breed after new European legislation increased the costs of keeping them.

Although Exmoor ponies live fairly close geographically and their markings are somewhat similar, evidence now suggests that Dartmoor ponies and Exmoor ponies are not related as was once thought.