HYBRIDS— ICELAND PONY 



hunter-bred stallions which are being utilised by breeders. 

 (See Hunter, Premiums?) 



Hybrids. — The crosses between the horse, on one side, 

 and the ass, zebra, or other animals, on the other. They are 

 invariably sterile, but the mares often secrete a quantity of 

 m.ilk, and cases have been mentioned in which a she-mule 

 has adopted and brought up a foal. (See Bardot, Jennet, 

 Mule, Mute, Qitagga, Zebra.) 



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Iceland Pony. — A dun-coloured breed, about 13 hands 

 in height, short-legged, strong, and hardy. Many of them 



Iceland Pony. 



inherit the ambling gait which is preferred on the island, 

 but they rarely, if ever, trot. Professor Cossar Ewart notes 

 that in some districts ten per cent, of these ponies have no 

 chestnuts on the hind-legs, and that in many cases the 



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