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A new visitor centre and indoor arena was opened by Princess Anne, the president of World Horse Welfare, in October 2012. [1] In 2018, the site was caring for 30 horses. [2] In May 2020, the site was at capacity, with 92 horses in its care. [3] The site was closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It reopened in August 2021. [4]
Redwings is now the largest horse charity in the UK. [3] Redwings provides a safe home for rescued horses, ponies, donkeys and mules who have been neglected and ill-treated, such as those rescued from Spindles Farm in 2008, the largest case of equine animal cruelty ever seen in the UK at the time.
World Horse Welfare works in the United Kingdom in recovering, rehabilitating and rehoming horses. [6] The charity has 16 full-time field officers based around the UK who investigate concerns reported by the general public.
The ICPAR registers half-Chincoteague Ponies from private breeders. The Chincoteague Pony Association (CPA) was founded by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company in 1994, and closed in 2012. [22] Many ponies are registered with multiple associations, especially if they are half-Chincoteague pony crosses with other horse breeds.
A breed registry was founded in 1954, and within 15 years had registered 15,000 ponies. Today, the Pony of the Americas Club is one of the largest and most active youth-oriented horse breed registrie in the US. Although called ponies, POAs have the phenotype of a small horse, combining mainly Arabian and American Quarter Horse attributes.
The Welsh Pony and Cob is a group of four closely-related horse breeds including both pony and cob types, which originated in Wales.The four sections within the breed society for the Welsh breeds are primarily distinguished by height, and also by variations in type: the smallest Welsh Mountain Pony (Section A); the slightly taller but refined Welsh Pony of riding type (Section B) popular as a ...
In 2001, two Basuto ponies carried the French poet Laurence Bougault on a trek alone from Lesotho, through South Africa, and northward to Malawi. In all, her trip covered a distance of 3,300 kilometers (2,100 mi) in eight months and became the subject of her book in French, Sous l’œil des chevaux d’Afrique (Under the eyes of African horses ...
The Hackney pony is a breed of pony closely related to the Hackney horse. Originally bred to pull carriages , they are used today primarily as show ponies. The breed does not have its own stud book , but shares one with the Hackney horse in all countries that have an official Hackney Stud Book Registry.