Dartmoor Pony Society
The Dartmoor Pony Society is the Mother society of the breed and represents the Pedigree Dartmoor Pony worldwide. We welcome all new members.
MARCH 2019 – STRONG WINDS AFFECTING PHONE AND INTERNET CONNECTION FOR OFFICE. Both are intermittent, so please bear with us and keep trying or sending us e-mails which do come in when it comes back on. Thanks.
Transfers and Loans
If you are transferring ownership of a Dartmoor pony, exporting a Dartmoor pony or when wishing to lease or loan a Dartmoor pony click on Transfers and Loans for the necessary information about fees and procedure.
Online Stud Book
The Society is pleased to announce that following requests the Online Stud Book “Ped-e-Web” is being made available to members courtesy of Mrs E Newbolt-Young who is sponsoring the set up costs.
To access Ped-e-Web follow this link:
Your access details are in a letter included with your 2018 Dartmoor Diary and the first newsletter of 2018. Contact the Secretary if you have forgotten your access details.
Following the success of the competition last year, the Dartmoor Pony Society is again holding this competition open to all members.
For entry forms please contact the office
Open to all Registered Dartmoor Ponies owned by Members.
Organized by the Society and kindly sponsored by Top-Spec Equine, this award is for ridden and driven ponies. It does not matter at what level you compete.
Performance cards are available at the cost of £6.00 per pony
For both in-hand and ridden ponies. For more details and an
entry card please contact the office. Free to enter for members.
This in-hand showing competition is for members living in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset who do not show a Dartmoor pony outside these counties. Free to enter. Contact Tisha Roberts on 01647-277389 or Caroline Belam at carolinebelam@btinternet.com or on 01364-643215 for more details
The Dartmoor Pony Society have introduced a new exciting in hand championship, with fabulous rosettes to be awarded at the AGM.
This will be for ANY open show, except Star show classes (who have their own separate award series). The three Breed shows will count in the unaffiliated classes with double points available at the Championship Breed show in Devon.
The championship will be split into adult and young stock groups with a few special prizes along the way! This is ONLY open to members of the society so why not join? There is a new “showing only” membership at a reduced rate for those owner’s who don’t want the benefits that full membership offers…….so NO excuses!!
It is FREE to enter and details can be found on the DPS website on Awards page.
Entry forms from the Secretary (Contacts) upon receipt of A5 SAE.
For Privacy statement regarding these competitions please see SHOWS page
The native pony breed of the county of Devon in the South West of England. The ponies have been recorded living on the wild and inhospitable moors of Dartmoor since the Middle Ages. The ponies have the metabolism to prosper in the tough and uncompromising conditions they have to contend with.
The ponies have an exceptional temperament and breeders have long realized their potential as children’s ponies with the ability to make wonderful companions, give endless fun, and if required compete and succeed in all spheres of competition.
The primary role of the Society is to maintain the Stud Book which holds records tracing back the pedigrees of the registered Dartmoor Pony for over 100 years. The original records were held in the Polo Pony Stud Book, and then in the stud books of the National Pony Society.
Finally thirty years ago the Dartmoor Pony Society took over maintaining the Stud Book and issues in hard copy form all the foal registrations, transfers and re-entries into the Stallion and gelding sections each year. A very interesting publication for all those interested in the Dartmoor Pony.
The RBST, Dorset Group, invite you to enter the 2019 Rare and Traditional Breeds Show at Sherborne Castle Country Fair on 27th May 2019. Entries close 30th April, a week earlier than normal.
This year the Dartmoor Pony Society have introduced a "Showing only" membership which will enable you to enter the various awards schemes.
Langworthy Swift Ghost is featured on the front of March 2019 edition of The Native Pony magazine, ridden by Lizzie Houghton.