Shetland pony
Shetland ponies are small (about one meter from the ground to wither) but strong for their size. Ancient
equids had lived in
Shetland since the
Bronze Age, and were later crossed with ponies imported by
Norse invaders. The resulting Shetland ponies were domesticated by the islanders, and many of them were imported to mainland
Britain at the time of the
Industrial Revolution to work in
coal mines. Some of these animals were exported to the American mid-west to work in the coal mines there.
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