THE EX MOOR PONY. 



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have infused some fine Spanish or Arab blood into them. 

 He also informs us that Exmoor ponies are miniature 

 cart-horses, with good action, and that they have goose 

 rumps. 



Mr. Charles H. Basset, late Master of the Devon and 

 Somerset Staghounds, writing to Mr. Edward Mucklow, 

 jun., thinks that there is no breed of pony like the pure 



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Fig. 468. — Mr. Edward Mucklow, Jimr.'s Exmoor pony mare, Gladys. 



Exmoor, of which Sir Thomas Acland and Mr. William 

 Westacott, of Harkridge, are the principal breeders. Mr. 

 Basset says that " these ponies are beautifully shouldered, 

 deep-girthed, and with lovely heads ; but with the drooping 

 quarters peculiar to the breed, and which I ha\'e been told, 

 are generally seen on all horses and ponies that are bred 

 and reared on hilly and mountainous land. Anyhow, 

 both the ponies and sheep of Exmoor have the same sloping 

 hind-quarters." Writing to me about Exmoor ponies, Mr. 



