New Forest - ponies Salmon postcard 1970s

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  New Forest Ponies
• Publisher:  J Salmon (1-57-02-02)
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The New Forest Pony or New Forester is one of the recognised Mountain and moorland or Native pony breeds of the British Isles.^[1] The breed is valued for its hardiness, strength and sureness of foot. It is indigenous to the New Forest, in Hampshire in southern England, and many ponies can still be seen running loose there.

There have been references to the New Forest Pony as far back as 1016. Stud books have been in existence since 1906. Thoroughbred and Arab blood has been introduced into the breed from time to time to improve looks and increase height and speed. They have been purebred for 50 years. The earliest record of horses in the New Forest dates back to 1016 when rights of common pasture were granted to the people living in what was a royal hunting ground. Since then, either as specific attempts to improve the breed or just as part of the normal ebb and flow of life and trade in the New Forest, many outside breeds were turned over to roam free and pasture on the commons. Notable blood lines introduced by this method were Welsh, Arab and Hackney. Later, another concerted effort was made to improve the New Forest blood and other British Isles pony blood-lines were introduced to achieve this, including Fell Ponies, Dales, Highlands, Dartmoor and Exmoor.

The cattle and ponies living on the New Forest are not feral, but are owned by commoners (local people with common grazing rights), who pay a fee each year for each animal turned out. The animals are looked after by their owners and by the Agisters, employees of the Verderers of the New Forest – the Verderers are a statutory body with ancient roots that shares the management of the forest with the Forestry Commission.

The ponies living full-time on the New Forest are almost all mares, although there are also a few geldings. For much of the year the ponies live in small groups, usually consisting of an older mare, her daughters and their foals, all keeping to a discrete area of the Forest called a haunt. Under New Forest regulations mares and geldings may be of any breed, and although they are predominately New Foresters other breeds such as Shetlands (and their cross-bred descendants) are also found in some areas. Stallions must be registered New Foresters, and are normally turned out during spring and summer, when they gather mares into larger groups and defend them against other stallions.

Drifts (round-ups) are carried out in autumn – the colts and some fillies are removed, and the remaining fillies are each branded with their owner's mark. At this time breeding stock is selected by the New Forest Pony Breeding and Cattle Society. Otherwise the lives of the ponies are relatively unhindered by humans unless they need veterinary attention or additional feeding, when they are usually taken off the Forest.

New Forest Ponies are raced in an annual point to point meeting in the Forest, usually on Boxing Day, finishing at a different place each year.^[2] The races do not have a fixed course, but are run across the open Forest, with the locations of start points being given to competitors only on the previous evening. This means that detailed knowledge of the Forest is a great advantage for riders, with different competitors often taking different routes around obstructions such as inclosures (forestry plantations), fenced paddocks and bogs.

The New Forest is an area of southern England which includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily-populated south east of England. It covers south-west Hampshire and extends into south-east Wiltshire.

The name also refers to the New Forest National Park which has similar boundaries. Additionally the New Forest local government district is a subdivision of Hampshire which covers most of the Forest, and some nearby areas although it is no longer the planning authority for the National Park itself. There are many villages dotted around the area, and several small towns in the Forest and around its edges.

The highest point in the New Forest is Piper's Wait, just west of Bramshaw. Its summit is at 125 m (410 ft) above sea level.