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User Login Email: Password:    » Forgot Password?  » New Member Sign Up Visitors Online: Today's Visits: Yesterday's Visits: Horses Menu Home Horses For Sale Welcome to Banker ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Banker Book Search: Banker Description The Banker Pony also referred to as the Shackleford Horses stand about 14 hh and originated on the Outer Bank Islands of North Carolina. The ancestors of these ponies were Spanish horses that came from Spain through Hispaniola in the 16th century. These wild ponies were said to have swam to these islands from shipwrecked ships long before the English colonized this area. The Banker Ponies would eat the coarse salt grass of the marshes and dig holes in the sand for fresh water for survival and flourished. During the late 1800s many of these wild ponies that were in certain areas were willed to the younger generation. In 1957 a plea was made to the government to let these wild ponies stay on these islands. By 1980 public interest in the ponies welfare became significant. Members of the Spanish Mustang Registry came to visit these ponies and found by genetic testing that many of these ponies were pure enough to qualify to be on the Spanish Mustang Registry. A few of the Banker Ponies have been registered on the Spanish Mustang Registry over the years. The protection act for the Banker Ponies was made public law in 1998 this act was called the “Shackleford Banks Wild Horses Protection Act” which would protect the Banker Ponies of the Outer Bank Islands of Hatteras, Shackleford, and Ocracoke. The Banker Ponies numbers are in the hundreds today and they are protected. Google Ads

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