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The Welsh Pony (Section B)Height Up to 13.2hh Colour Any colour except piebald, skewbald or spotted. Build Body should be deep, with ribs well sprung. Loins should be muscular, strong and well coupled. Shoulders should be long and sloping, with moderately fine wither. Neck should be well set and moderate in length. Head should be small and neat, tapering to the muzzle. Legs should be strong, set square, and short in the cannons, with plenty of dense flat bone. Hooves should be rounded and dense. Movement Straight and free from the shoulder. Knees and hocks should be well flexed with straight. Trimming rules for showing Manes may be trimmed and tails squared off. Jawlines and outer ear may be tidied. Working ponies may be body clipped only. History The Welsh Section B has been selectively bred from the Welsh Mountain Pony, and is generally taller and lighter in build. The emphasis being placed on riding pony qualities combined with traditional welsh pony characteristics and substance. First bred to meet the demand of a larger riding type for Welsh hill farmers; who needed a means of transport for shepherding accross the hills, cattle herding, and rounding up wild mountain ponies. Their uses even extended to riding to stock fairs and taking part in pony races. It is thought that infusions of Thoroughbred and Hackney blood were used to create this type. In 1911, it was decided to ban Hackney bloodlines from registering into the Stud Book; there had been several incidences of pure Hackneys competing and winning at National Welsh Pony Shows. Along with the Section A, the Section B has had a great influence on the Breeding of the British Riding pony, with many section B ponies being exported as far afield as Australia to influence the breeding of the British Riding Pony type. The welsh section B has excellent riding pony qualities, combined with good temperament and natural athletic jumping abiltiy. They make an ideal chioce of pony for the competitive child to excel in any sphere; from jumping, endurance to driving, as well as being able to hold their own among top class riding ponies in the show ring. Breed Society http://www.wpcs.uk.com/ Did you know? Influential Section B sire Tan-y-Bwlch Berwyn's sire was an African Barb pony. Welsh Section B Criban Victor, Champion at Ponies of Britain Show in 1959, 1962, 1965, and 1966 and the NPS Shows in 1956, 1959, and 1960; made a glorious retirement from the show ring in 1969, aged 25, when he won the Section B Championship and was Reserve Supreme Champion of the whole show at Caern. In 1978, his image was included in a series of stamps depicting horses, produced by the Royal Mail. Following his death at the age of 29, his breeder had his head stuffed; and it has since been donated to the WPCS. National preliminary dressage champion and reigning Pony Club dressage champion, Duntarvie Catalan, is by the Welsh pony stallion, Longnewton Maestro. The current Patron of the Welsh Pony & cob Society is Her Majesty The Queen. Individual European dressage champion, Dornik B, and team gold medal eventing pony Desperados , bloodlines can be tracked back to Welsh pony, Downland Chevalier. The four-times European dressage gold medallist, the stallion, Dressman, and perennial British team member, Daphne, also share these bloodlines. Time line 1901 - Welsh Pony & Cob Society founded 1949 - Seperate sections of the stud book introduced. 1950 - Welsh Partbred Register was approved. 1979 - Canadian welsh Pony & Cob Society formed. |
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