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Dartmoor Pony
Country of origin
England
Traits
Distinguishing features
Small but strong, many colours, hardy
Equus ferus caballus
The Dartmoor Pony is a breed of pony that lives in Devon, England. The breed has been in England for centuries and is used in a variety of roles. Because of the extreme weather conditions experienced on the moors, the Dartmoor Pony is a particularly hardy breed with excellent stamina. Over the centuries, it has been used as a working animal by local tin miners and quarry workers. It is kept in a semiferal state on Dartmoor.
Despite this, numbers living on the open moor have declined from an estimated 5,000 in 1900 to about 300 registered ponies today.[when?] Only around 800 ponies were known to be grazing the moor in the spring of 2004.
The DartmoorPony is a breed of pony that lives in Devon, England. The breed has been in England for centuries and is used in a variety of roles. Because...
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ponies live in apparently wild conditions in various areas, notably Dartmoor, Exmoor, Cumbria (Fell Pony), and the New Forest. Similar horse and pony...
grant of crest and supporters was obtained. The crest is the head of a DartmoorPony rising from a "Naval Crown". This distinctive form of crown is formed...
pony breeds, used for riding and hunting. When pony classes were added to horse shows in the early 1920s, breeders began crossing Welsh and Dartmoor ponies...
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the Shetland pony and Icelandic horse. A 2012 study found relationships between the Kerry Bog Pony and the DartmoorPony and Exmoor Pony breeds, and a...
show and sell other livestock, particularly locally bred sheep and Dartmoorponies, and by the 1920s it had also become a sports day for local schoolchildren...
southwestern edge of Dartmoor. It is located near the popular Cadover Bridge and is a popular walking destination. It is common for the DartmoorPony and other cattle...
The Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) is a national park authority in England, legally responsible for Dartmoor in Devon. It came into existence...
eaten as forage by some livestock, such as feral ponies, which may eat little else in winter. Ponies may also eat the thinner stems of burnt gorse. Gorse-bushes...
from other British native mountain and moorland pony breeds such as the Fell, Dales, Highland, Dartmoor, and Exmoor were introduced to the Forest. This...
animals; and the British Territorial Army experimented with the use of Dartmoorponies as pack animals in 1935, finding them to be better than mules for the...
grant of crest and supporters was obtained. The crest is the head of a DartmoorPony rising from a "Naval Crown". This distinctive form of crown is formed...
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of breeding in the region. The region also boasts a large number of Dartmoorponies, with the breed's French association based in Brech, Morbihan. Brittany...
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