THE FELL PONY 183 



of trotting cart-horse greatly used in Scotland about 

 half a century ago. 



I was very much interested when I visited the Kirkby 

 Stephen Show to see a nice bunch of Fell ponies. 

 Glengarry impressed me : he was a beautiful type of 

 pony. 



The Fell pony, it is said, should stand from 12-3 

 hands to 14-1 hands. Most I have seen have been 

 about 13-3 to 14 hands. They are on short legs and 

 have excellent bone, and plenty of it. They remind me 

 of a miniature Clydesdale with good shoulders. They 

 are good movers and have a fair turn of speed, the 

 well-known Fell pony stallion, British Credit, having 

 trotted twelve miles in the hour. 



The farmers around Cumberland and Westmoreland 

 are paying more interest to the breeding of the Fell pony 

 now than they are to the cart-horse, because the prices 

 obtained in the recent sales have been very good and 

 much higher than those realised for the Clydesdale cart- 

 horses. 



The Fell pony would have been more suitable to 

 cross with the Welsh mountain pony and the New Forest 

 pony than the Hackney or the Arab, because the Fell is 

 so strong and hardy, used to very severe winters, and 

 has such massive bone and good shoulders. Welsh 



