Why are miniture horses not considered ponies??
i read online (I lost the web page, but i promis i read this online) that they were horses bread to be smaller! and “they are not ponies.” but im with you why arnt they ponies and if they were bread to be smaller at one point the horse had to achually be a pony if they were getting smaller it would hit under 14.2 at one point! (duh) here is what the site that trained the mini service horse (see below) said “mini-horses are descended from shetland ponies…” http://www.guidehorse.org/faq_horses.htm find the pic of them sleeping in a bed here is something else they said…While the exact origins of mini horses have been obscured over the centuries, early incunabula texts refer to miniature horses being kept as prized companions of Hapsburg royalty as early as the 17th century. Just as dogs have been bred to be small, centuries of selective breeding have resulted in miniature horses with calm dispositions. Many American
