260 POLO PONY BREEDING. [Chap. XI. 



POLO PONY SOCIETY. 



The Polo Pony Society has, during the past three 

 years, made excellent progress in membership, and has 

 largely extended its influence. Its supporters have 

 increased from 200 to 450; it has registered 210 

 stallions and 1,147 niares and fillies, and its prizes and 

 medals are now in evidence at twenty-three shows, 

 besides its own London spring exhibition. This 

 successful record dates from the transference of the 

 Society's offices to 12, Hanover Square, London (in 

 which congenial atmosphere flourish many notable 

 examples of the British Breed Society), and is the 

 natural outcome of the enthusiasm and determination 

 of an energetic council, numbering, among others. 

 Lord Arthur Cecil, Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart., Sir 

 Humphrey de Trafford, Bart., Mr. John Barker, 

 Mr. G. Norris Midwood, and Rev. D. B. Montefiore, 



Following the example of the other horse-breeding 

 societies located in London, they have organised a 

 spring show comprising all classes of breeding stock 

 and made ponies, securing entries of 102' and 141 in 

 1900 and 1 90 1 respectively. 



To associated shows offering definite amounts in 

 prizes for polo ponies, they have awarded gold and 

 silver medals, while the exhibitors of polo ponies at 

 the Royal shows are under obligation to the Society 

 for the schedule of prizes provided, as since 1897 they 

 have raised the necessary funds. Their latest, and by 

 no means least successful, movement was to offer 



