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BREEDS OF POLO PONIES. [Chap. YIII. 



they cannot carry weight through heavy ground, and 

 few of them are fast enough. 



SOUTH AFRICAN PONIES. 



Very few South African ponies are worth bringing 

 to this country ; for they are, as a rule, slow, weedy, 



Photo 6y] \>^- H. HAYES. 



Fig. 92,— Captain Renton's South African pony "Jess." 



and have bad shoulders. From time to time a few 

 good ones have come over, such as Idgit, who made a 

 name for himself when owned by Colonel Rimington 

 of the Inniskilling Dragoons, and Jess (Fig. 92), the 

 property of Captain Renton, was good for a small 

 pony, though slow. The 7th Hussars owned a couple 

 of useful ones. 



