New Forest Horses

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New Forest Ponies, also called New Foresters, are one of the Mountain and moorland natives of the British Isles. Until today, these ponies are still running loose in Britain, specifically in New Forest, in Hampshire, in southern England. They make an ideal children’s pony.

Commoners pertain to the local people who have grazing rights do won the cattle and ponies residing within New Forest. They pay annual fee for each animal being turned out. The Verderers are a legal body which manages the forest and they employ Agisters, who takes care of the animal owned by the commoners. Through King Canute’s Forest Law of 1016, records of the horses present among wild animals of the Forest are being kept. The New Forest Pony breed was added with the Thoroughbred and Arabian blood. However, the New Forest Pony was only valued at the end of the 18th century. In 1891, the Society for the improvement of the New forest Ponies was established. It’s the society’s duty offer premiums to the best stallions that run on the forest. In 1906, the registration of mares and young stocks was started by the Burley District New Forest Pony Breeding Cattle Society.

Finally, the society published the first Stud Book in 1910. The registrations from 1914 to 1959 were recorded in the National Pony Society’s Stud Book. In 1938, the local societies merged together and have decided that outside bloodlines will no longer be incorporate in the breeding process. The New Forest Pony Breeding Cattle Society published its own Stud book in 1960. In private Studs, these ponies are increasing and are even exported. Aside from this, even the Studs of the Registered New Forest Ponies are all over Europe and even in North America and Australia.

New Forest Ponies have an upper limit of 148 cm. They don’t have any lower limits but they are rarely under 120 cm. They have muscular hindquarters, sloping shoulders, strong joints, plenty of bones and straight limbs. Mostly, they come in bay, chestnut or gray. There are those who come in any colors excluding the colors such as piebald, skewbald or cremello. They are intelligent, powerful and adaptable. They are friendly and are always willing to please.

Because of their versatility and good temperament, they can do almost everything you want them to. They are highly trainable and their stallions are also easy to handle.