Shetland Pony

Scope and Contents Ridgeway thanks Ewart for a block that he has lent him and says that he is at last returning Salensky's paper. He states that he is gratified to find that the tarpan is an original wild Equid and not a feral horse. He asks if Ewart has any data about Cossack ponies, which he supposes are more or less mixed like the Shetlands, and wonders if Ewart has any questions about Barbary horses for Walter Harris, with whom Ridgeway has been in touch. He then goes on to mention early Greek sources for...

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The letter requests more detailed particulars about Lord Cecil's pony than Ewart previously provided. The purchasers intend to cross the stallion with Shetland mares to produce a reliable carting and ploughing pony for crofters.

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Mungall writes regarding the filly foal born in 1908 to the yellow dun Shetland mare 'Helen II' and says that due to the distance he cannot say whether the foal has chestnuts (callosities) or ergots. However, the second foal born to the mare does have chestnuts.

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Mungall writes that he can now confirm that the foal born in 1908 to 'Helen II' does have chestnuts and ergots, more pronounced than the foal born in 1909.

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Photograph of a Percheron-Shetland first-cross horse at 2 years old standing in a paddock in [Argentina] in 1904. Image from 'the author's' book 'Argentine Shows and Live Stock 1904.'

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Photograph of Mrs. Margaret F Radford, a well-known exhibitor, feeding her pedigree prize-bred Shetland ponies in 1919.

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Photograph of the Shetland pony stallion, "Good Friday" (3636) that was 9 hands high and the winner of many first prizes after 1888 and was the property of Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart, Elsenham Hall, Essex.

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Photograph of the Shetland pony stallion, "Laird of Noss" standing in a field in the late 19th century. The horse won first at the Highland Show at Inverness in 1892 and was the property of the Marquis of Londonderry, Seaham Hall, Seaham Harbour, Durham, England.