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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 Fell Pony ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Fell Pony Book Search: Fell Pony Description The Fell Pony is from the northern edges of the English Pennines and wild moorlands of Westmorland, and Cumberland. This pony is lighter and more of a trotter than the Dales Pony with which it shares its ancestry. The Fell Pony was used as a pack and saddle pony on the rough fells.The black Friesian influenced the northern breeds of Fell Ponies when the Frieslanders were hired as auxiliary cavalry by the Roman legions stationed in Northern Europe. The Galloway, which was bred between Nithsdale and the Mull of Galloway, was possibly the greatest influence to the Fell Pony. The border raiders and then the Scottish Drovers rode the Galloway. Even though the Galloway has been extinct since the nineteenth century, many of the great qualities of the Galloway are evident in the modern Fell Pony. Today these ponies are used for pack or saddle ponies as well as crossbreeding with other ponies such as Wilson Pony or Modern Hackney Pony to improve the breeds for competition. Google Ads

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