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PONIES PAST AND PRESENT
Painted by A. Cooper, R.A. Engraved on wood by F. Babbage.
THE SHOOTING PONY.]
PONIES PAST AND PRESENT
BY SIR WALTER GILBEY, BART.
ILLUSTRATED
VINTON & CO., LTD., 9, NEW BRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E.C.
1900
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Introduction 1
The New Forest Pony 11
The Welsh Pony 25
The Exmoor and Dartmoor Ponies 38
The Cumberland and Westmoreland Ponies 53
Ireland—The Connemara Pony 63
The Ponies of Scotland and The Shetland Islands 71
Uses and Characteristics of the Pony 87
Breeding Polo Ponies 97
ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Shooting Pony Frontispiece
The Pony Hack To face page 25
Little Wonder II. 59
Child’s Shetland Pony 82
“Princess Victoria in her Pony Phaeton” 87
The First Leap 89
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