“The ponies are as wild as the hills,” says Gareth Wyn Jones, a local farmer whose ancestors have managed them for 370 years. Each herd has a matriarch that is believed to be more influential than the group’s stallion. Thousands Read more…
English Horse Breeds Cleveland Bay Horse. Size: 15.2–16 hands. Dale Pony. Size: 14–14.2 hands. Dartmoor Pony. Size: Up to around 12.2 hands. Exmoor Pony. Size: 11.2–12.3 hands. Felly Pony. Size: 13 to 14 hands. Hackney. Size: 14.2–16.2 hands. New Forest. Read more…
The breed is now firmly established in Britain Numbers of Quarter Horses here in the UK, whilst only a minute fraction of the worldwide total, are increasing swiftly and have more than doubled over the last ten years from less Read more…
Liberty Trainers Double Dan Horsemanship. Started as two young, rope-slinging, crowd-pleasing cowboys, Dan James and Dan Steers turned their passion into a franchise. When the team first began their ventures into the art of liberty training in 2008, they never Read more…
About The British Horse Society. We are the largest and most influential equestrian charity in the UK. The BHS makes a positive impact on the lives of horses and horse owners with wide-ranging campaigns and initiatives across education, welfare, access Read more…
Rhode Island – America’s First Horse Center The pre-eminence of Kentucky as a horse-breeding region has been an established fact for some time. But back when Kentucky was only a remote and unknown woodland, the chief horse breeding region of Read more…
The Selle Français (SF) is a breed of sport horse from France. It is renowned primarily for its success in breed, but many have also been successful in dressage and eventing. An athletic horse with good gaits, it is usually Read more…
Patton and Colonel Charles H. Reed saved hundreds of noble horses from being slaughtered and eaten by the Russian Red Army near the end of the Second World War. Who saved the Lipizzan horses? The rescue of the Lipizzans by Read more…
Today, most Belgians found in the U.S. have light blonde manes and tails with chestnut, sorrel, or blonde coats. All of these coat colors are red-brown. Can a Belgian draft horse be black? Conformation. Bay is the most common colour Read more…
Horses were first domesticated in the Pontic-Caspian steppes, northern Caucasus, before conquering the rest of Eurasia within a few centuries. Did horses originate in Europe? Horses aren’t native to Europe, according to most scholars. The earliest fossil discoveries of Eohippus, Read more…