174 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
to have been brought to England by the Phcenicians 
when they visited the shores of Cornwall to trade in tins 
and metals. 
Stud-book No. 5, of the Polo Pony Society, contains a 
description of the Exmoor pony. The average height is 
given as twelve hands. The best of the Exmoor ponies 
have strong backs and loins and good substance. They 
are generally bay or brown, with black points, wide fore- 
heads and nostrils, mealy noses, sharp ears, good shoulders 
and back, short legs and good bone. They are very 
tough and hardy, and have been known to cover long 
distances. Youatt states that in the year 1860, a farmer 
who weighed 196 pounds rode an Exmoor pony from Bris- 
tol to South Moulton, a distance of 86 miles, beating a 
coach that traveled the same road. 
The official description of the Dartmoor ponies and 
those of North Wales is identical, with certain amend- 
ments in addition. Those ponies that are over fifteen 
hands would seem to be cross-bred, as the pure Dartmoor 
never exceeds thirteen hands. In color, the Dartmoor 
ponies are brown, black or bay. There are some grays. 
Other colors are considered objectionable. Efforts are 
now being made to improve them by the introduction of 
good stallions of the best pony breeds. 
204. The New Forest pony. — Ponies have been bred 
in a semi-wild state from the earliest times in the county 
of Hampshire in England, a district covering some 92,395 
acres, of which 44,978 are still uninclosed waste land. 
The greater part of this common land is poor and boggy 
moor. It is estimated that there are about 2500 of these 
ponies. Like most of the other ponies in the British Isles, 
they have been much improved in recent years. Lord 
Arthur Cecil owns a large number, and he turns out with 
