SHETLAND PONY 



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The use of the Shetland in America is nearly exclusively for 

 children, they not being generally regarded as beasts of burden. 

 However, about Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, where large 

 numbers of these ponies 

 are common, they are 

 frequently seen in pony 

 carts, phaetons, or small 

 surreys, hauling two or 

 four persons over the 

 pavements with com- 

 parative ease. Ponies 

 for this heavier work 

 approximate forty-five 

 inches or more in 

 height. No breed equals 

 the Shetland for chil- 

 dren. The very univer- 

 sal gentleness of these 

 ponies makes them safe 

 for small children to use with the greatest freedom in any way. 

 Even when but two years old Shetlands may be used in a moder- 

 ate way in the saddle by 

 little children. Recently the 

 demand for Shetlands has 

 greatly increased. In 1905 

 the largest importation ever 

 made to America occurred 

 in the bringing over from 

 England of 201 head. 



The price paid for Shet- 

 land ponies is naturally 

 variable, but ranges from 

 $75 upward. Choice stal- 

 lions have sold at from $500 

 to $1000 each. Mr. C. E. 

 Bunn states in his catalogue that he refused $1500 for his 

 champion stallion Chestnut 3572. The price is in some degree 



Fig. 57. Oman (2;^). First-prize Shetland pony 

 stallion at the Highland Show, Scotland, in 

 1S96 and 1897, and at the Royal Show in 1897. 

 Also won the President's Medal for being the 

 best specimen of the breed at the Highland 

 Show. Bred by the Marquis of Londonderry. 

 Photograph by the author 



Fig. 58. Bretta. A Shetland pony mare with 

 foal, owned by the Marquis of London- 

 derry, England. Photograph by the author 



