SOUND AND UNSOUND HORSES 



Most of the prize winners are 9 and 

 10 hands or thereabouts, and in colour 

 brown, black-brown, bay, more rarely 

 chestnut. Many have white markings, 

 and some are piebald. 



The breed is as hardy as they " make 

 'em," and will do hard and fast work 

 on poor food. In point of size, for 

 endurance, weight -carrying and clever- 

 ness all round, they have no superior, 

 if an equal. 



One of the best small ponies the writer 

 ever drove was a dark brown Shetland, 

 to name, " Sammy." He could carry 

 his " tub " with three people in it, at 

 eight or nine miles an hour, and keep 

 it up. 



In the autumn and winter the coats 

 of these ponies get very long unless the 

 best of grooming, clipping, etc., is 

 carried out. To work in this condition 

 is considerably against them. 



It is quite exceptional to find a bad 



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