Robert Clarkのインスタグラム(robertclarkphoto) - 12月21日 04時46分

Looking into my archive, I found a picture I like....On a trip to Shetland Island, I was able to do this portrait doing my travels around the island. The Shetland pony is a breed of pony originating in the #ShetlandIsles, Scotland. Shetland ponies have heavy coats, short legs and are considered quite intelligent. They are a very strong breed of pony, used for riding, driving, and pack purposes.
Shetland ponies originated in the Shetland Isles, located northeast of mainland #Scotland. Small #horses have been kept on the Shetland Isles since the #BronzeAge. People who lived on the islands probably later crossed the native stock with ponies imported by Norse settlers. Shetland ponies also were probably influenced by the Celtic pony, brought to the islands by settlers between 2000 and 1000 BCE. The harsh climate and scarce food developed the ponies into extremely hardy animals.

Shetland ponies were first used for pulling carts, carrying peat, coal and plowing farmland. Then, as the #IndustrialRevolution increased the need for coal in the mid-19th century, thousands of Shetland ponies traveled to mainland Britain to be pit ponies, working underground hauling coal, often for their entire lives. Coal mines in the eastern United States also imported some of these animals, the where termed Pit Ponies. The last pony mine in the United States closed in 1971. @atedge

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