New Forest ponies combine the characteristics of the other native British ponies such as strength, intelligence and agility with a narrower build, tractable temperament and speed.
New Forest Ponies are for Work, for Play, for Dressage, for Show Jumping, for Cross Country, for Riding Club, for Driving, for Children, for Adults, for Riding and Driving for the Disabled, for Showing, for Family Pony, for Working Hunter, ...
New Forest ponies range -in size up to 14.2 hh and while there's no official lower limit, they seldom go below 12 hh. Bay, brown and grey are the most prominent colors and chestnuts, roans and blacks are also seen.
New Forest Ponies are extremely gentle and they are often used for children's horses. They can carry light weight adults as well, and are an ideal driving pony.
The New Forest ponies' most endearing quality is their inbred gentleness.
Colour
New Forest ponies can be bay, brown, grey, black, chestnut and dun.
Conformation ...
Isolated feral populations are often named for their geographic location: Namibia has its Namib Desert Horses; the Sorraia lives in Spain and Portugal; Sable Island Horses reside in Nova Scotia, Canada; and New Forest ponies have been part of ...
The New Forest ponies still roam its heaths,
New Forest ponies combine the characteristics of the other
1891, the Society for the Improvement of New Forest Ponies was founded.
In 1891 the Society for the Improvement of New Forest Ponies was formed and gathered a number of suitable stallions to run wild in the forest, the majority of this breed came under their care.
New Forest ponies should be of riding type with substance. They should have sloping shoulders, strong quarters, plenty of bone, good depth of body, straight limbs and good hard round feet.
The United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization lists the Kaimanawa horses as a herd of special genetic value that can be compared with other groups of feral horses such as free-living zebras, New Forest ponies, Assateague ponies, ...
lt is also said these horses strongly resemble the New Forest ponies, and Welsh breeds, with a Arab stallion being thrown in sometime in the 1960s. They have been scientifically compared to the Zebra, Assuteague ponies and the wild mustangs.
Native breeds range from the statuesque Suffolk Punch and magnificent Shire, right down to the Dartmoor, Exmoor and New Forest ponies.
In 1891 a Society was formed to improve the New Forest Ponies and in 1906 the Burley and District New Forest Pony and Cattle Breeding Society registered ponies and published their first Stud Book in 1910.
 See also: Ponies, New Forest, Pony, New Forest Pony, Stallion
  
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