News from the Dartmoor Pony Keepers
Check this page regularly to find out what the pony breeders and their herds have been up to! Each section has a bit of information about the breeders followed by their latest news.
Click here to find out more about the ponies on Dartmoor (their history and importance for the environment) and to watch a video of the annual pony drift.
In partnership with some of Dartmoor’s most respected Pony Keepers, including the ones listed below, the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust is organising a Showcase Day and Private Sale of approx. 30 Dartmoor Ponies, on Sunday 8th July at the Trust’s Centre at Parke, Bovey Tracey - Perfect chance to meet the keepers and their ponies for sale.
Selected Dartmoor Pony Keepers have been invited to put forward ponies, from unbroken, lightly handled yearlings, to adult ponies broken to ride and drive. Full details of each animal, its history and herd, will be provided and all will have been ‘started’. Each will have a basic level of handling to enable them to go on to become established family ponies for children and light adults, for riding and driving, or as conservation grazers. More information on our homepage.
View our current list of Dartmoor ponies for sale: Sales List
Margaret Rogers, Venton Farm, Widecombe
Heritage Chinkwell Herd off the High Moorland of Dartmoor. The welfare of our ponies is paramount and we work hard to find suitable loving homes from which we get much feedback. [Read more]
Luke & Hannah Fursdon, Lowertown Farm, Poundsgate
We run an established herd of good quality and carefully selected mares and we aim to produce confident and happy ponies. All ponies are handled using natural horsemanship methods before sale. [Read more]
Daf Edwards, Langworthy Farm, Widecombe
All of our ponies are halter broken and taught to have their feet picked out at weaning and are sold microchipped with passports, and are regularly wormed. [Read more]
Sue Hutchings, Yardworthy Farm, Chagford
I saw all my ponies recently and can report they all look very well. Just for a lovely change the weather was dry and their woolly coats all fluffed-up! [Read more]
