Wednesday 23 May 2012

The New Forest pony. | *A blog for Pets*


The land that now comprises the British Isles was periodically joined to continental Europe by a land bridge, extending from approximately the current coast of North Yorkshire to the English Channel, most recently until about 7,500?years ago.
Dependent on the rise and fall of sea levels associated with advancing and retreating Ice ages, this land bridge allowed humans and fauna to migrate between these areas; as the temperatures and sea levels fluctuated, hunters could follow their prey, including equids.

Spear damage on a horse shoulder bone discovered at Eartham Pit, Boxgrove (only about 50 miles from the heart of the modern New Forest), dated 500,000?BC, showed that early humans were hunting horses in the area at that time.

Although there is an apparent absence of horse remains between 7000?BC and 3500?BC, there is evidence that wild horses remained in Britain after it became an island separate from Europe by about 5,500?BC; pre-domestication wild horse bones have been found in Neolithic tombs of the Severn-Cotswold type, dating from around 3500?BC.?

Ponies have grazed on the New Forest for many thousands of years, dating back to the last Ice Age; the remains of a large Ice Age hunting camp have been found close to Ringwood (on the western border of the modern New Forest).
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A genetic study by Checa et.al in 1998 suggested that the New Forest pony has ancient shared ancestry with two endangered Spanish celtic-type pony breeds, the Asturc?n and Pottok,? and evidence from the skeletal remains of ponies from the Bronze Age suggests that they were similar to the modern Exmoor Pony.

Horse bones excavated from Iron Age ritual burial sites at Danebury (about 25 miles from the heart of the modern New Forest) indicate that the animals were about 12.2?hands (50?inches, 127?cm) ? the same size as the smaller New Forest ponies of today.

A blog for PetsThe upper height limit for a New Forest pony is 14.21?4?hands (58.25?inches, 148?cm). There is no lower limit, but New Forest ponies are seldom under 12?hands (48?inches, 122?cm).

They are normally shown in two height sections: competition type A, 138 centimetres (54?in) and under; and competition height B, over 138 centimetres (54?in).

New Forest ponies are to be of riding type, workmanlike and strong in conformation, with a sloping shoulder and powerful hindquarters; the body is deep, and the legs are straight with strong, flat bone, and hard rounded hooves.

The larger ponies, while narrow enough for small children to ride comfortably, are also capable of carrying adults. The smaller ponies, though not suitable for heavier riders, often have more show quality. The New Forest Pony has free, even gaits, active and straight, but not exaggerated.
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They are noted for their sure-footedness, agility and speed.
New Forest Ponies are most commonly bay, chestnut or grey, but may be any coat colour except piebald, skewbald or blue-eyed cream.

Palominos and very light chestnuts are only accepted by the stud book as geldings and mares. Blue eyes are not permitted. White markings on the head and legs are permitted unless they occur behind the head and above a line parallel to the ground from the point of the hock in the hind leg to the top of the metacarpal bone, or bend in the knee in the foreleg.

New Forest ponies have a gentle temperament and are noted for their intelligence, strength, and versatility. They are on the whole a sturdy and hardy breed, but congenital myotonia, a hereditary muscle disorder, was identified in 2009 in a New Forest pony foal by researchers in the Netherlands, the first time the condition had been identified in equines.
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It is associated with a missense mutation on the CLCN1 gene, which is the causative gene for the condition in goats and humans. As the gene has a recessive mode of inheritance, for a foal to show clinical signs it must inherit the mutated allele from both parents.


The New Forest Pony, or New Forester, is one of the recognised mountain and moorland or native pony breeds of the British Isles.

Height varies from around 12?hands (48?inches, 122?cm) to 14.2?hands (58?inches, 147?cm) and ponies of all heights should be strong, workmanlike, and of a good riding type; they are valued for hardiness, strength and surefootedness.

Many breeds have contributed to the foundation bloodstock of the New Forest pony, but today only ponies whose parents are both registered as purebred can be entered in the purebred section of the stud book.

The New Forest pony can be ridden by children and adults, can be driven in harness, and competes successfully against larger horses in horse show competitions. It is indigenous to the New Forest in Hampshire in southern England, where ponies have grazed since the last Ice Age and thousands still run loose.
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The semi-feral ponies grazing on the New Forest are owned by New Forest commoners ?? people who have "rights of common of pasture" over the Forest lands, for which an annual marking fee is paid.

The ponies are rounded up annually in a series of drifts, to be checked for health, wormed, and tail-marked; each pony's tail is trimmed to the pattern of the agister responsible for that pony. Purebred New Forest stallions approved by the Breed Society and the New Forest Verderers run out on the Forest with the mares for a short period each year.

Many of the foals bred on the Forest are sold through the Beaulieu Road pony sales.
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