Scientific name:
Equus

Natural spread:
Shetland-Inseln

one of the smallest pony-races at all, however not result of an artificially brought about Verkrüppelung but a "real Verzwergung" - with only approximately 100 cm of stick-measurement is the animals harmoniously built. Long, however dry head, short, strong neck and good, long shoulder. Massive torso of good depth and width, with little withers, however powerful, round croup. Enormously stable, short legs with small hard hooves. Hard-working movements, with it sometimes something, big endurance, trips. All colors, also Schecken, however no Tigerschecken.

The race possibly goes back to the prehistoric prototypes of the ice age-like forest and Tundrenponys, that (type 1 and 2) wasted away in the extremely rough climate. Later, also Celtic ponies came with the settling of the islands severed by the continental country-masses meanwhile and around the middle of the 1. Millennium's n. Chr. also northern ponies. The little horse becomes on the islands as carry, train, and mounts use and thrives with sparsest feed and all-year attitude outside. the work of women and children in the English mines was prohibited 1847, and one placed innumerable Shetländer as Pit-ponies one. in 1870, Lord Londonderry established its famous stud farm on Bressay. The ponies attained severe popularity as children, Kutsch, and circus-horses. The breeding widened since the turn of the millennium from the whole world. The Stutbuch was justified in 1890.