]30 THE PONY. 



mountain pony, in very good condition, especially 

 if not castrated, is a perfect war-horse in miniature, 

 uniting almost every good property his species pos- 

 sesses. As a proof of one essential quality, we 

 can state upon authority, that the Earl of Oxford 

 had a mare pony, got by the Clive Arabian, her 

 dam by the same horse, out of a Welsh mare pony, 

 which could beat any of his racers four miles at a 

 feather weight. Ponies, too, have properties which 

 should attract the notice of the hippopathologist, 

 among the most prominent of which are the follow- 

 ing : They are never lame in the feet, or become 

 roarers. A broken-winded pony is a very rare sight, 

 and they live to the extreme of old age, if not un- 

 fairly treated. They are also very little susceptible 

 of disease, in comparison with other horses ; while 

 their powers of endurance stagger belief. A rare 

 instance of the latter excellence is furnished by the 

 pony. Sir Teddy, only twelve hands high, accom- 

 panying the royal mail from London to Exeter, and 

 arriving in that city fifty-nine minutes before it 

 — distance 172 miles, in twenty-three hours and 

 twenty minutes I It may scarcely be necessary to 

 state, that he carried no weight, being led between 

 two horses all the way ; nevertheless, it was a task 

 that we think no full-grown horse would have 

 performed. A correct likeness of this pony was 

 painted by the elder Marshall, of Newmarket. In 

 1784, a Shetland pony, eleven hands and a half 

 high, carried a rider, weighing five stones, from 

 Norwich to Yarmouth, and back, forty-four miles, 

 in three hours and forty-five minutes. As a proof, 



