Intro
The Norfolk Roadster or Trotter was perhaps one of the most influential of all trotting breeds and is the foundation for most modern trotting breeds of today.
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England Category
New Forest Pony
Intro
Wild ponies have been roaming the New Forest on the coast of southwest Hampshire in England for as long as anyone can remember and this is an ancient northern pony breed.
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Lundy Pony
Intro
The Lundy Pony is named for the isle of Lundy in the Bristol Channel of England. There are no horses native to the cluster of islands there, so this breed was developed by the last private owner of Lundy Island.
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Hackney Pony
Intro
The Hackney pony is purely a man made breed, they were developed using selective breeding with the goal of creating a pony type within the Hackney breed.
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Hackney Horse
Intro
England has a long history of trotting animals and the tradition is thought to go back to the Middle Ages. For many years two types of trotters came from the areas of East Anglis and the East Riding of Yorkshire, the Norfolk Trotter and the Yorkshire Hackneys.
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Fell Pony
Exmoor Pony
Intro
A breed of great antiquity, the Exmoor is one of the few breeds that looks very much the same today as they always have. They are believed to be the oldest pure descendants of the ponies that inhabited Britain some 100,000 years ago.
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English Thoroughbred Horse
Intro
Few breeds, (besides perhaps their fathers, the Arabian and the Andalusian) have traveled as far and as wide as the English (or British) Thoroughbred animals have. While racing horses has been a sport for as long as we have been on their back, the British took horse racing to another level entirely.
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Drum Horse
Dartmoor Pony
Intro
Ponies have been a part of the British landscape for over 10,000 years and their remains have been found all over the country. The United kingdom is a tiny land of surprisingly diverse, but very old pony breeds.
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