Sue Millard is an author, editor of Fell Pony Society magazine, webmaster of the Society website and for the last 15 years has been a member of the Fell Pony Society Council. In 2002 Sue created the online Fell Pony Museum. As well as her non-fiction, Sue is about to publish her 6th novel and somewhere in her life finds time to drive her Fell pony mare Coppyhill Suzanne.
Show notes
The origins of the Fell pony that we know today
The Beginnings of a recognised breed
The Galloway pony
Shepherds meets
Formation of Breed Societies
The Dargue family and the Peepings trotting ponies
The Sleddale ponies
The Heltondale herd and Dales ponies
The Wilson pony and the need to preserve the hill herds
Commons rights
Influences of other breeds