Show PONIES AND COBS TT h Det Treen 4 two are benned denned A correspondent w artes says the badminton magazine to ash me what a pony ignot the pouy of the betting ring he refers to the animal the dictionaries which he haa consulted tell him no more than that a pony is a horse and he wants to know where the pony ends and the horse begins the term 0 course very loosely used at newmarket where one might expect definitions the trainers seem to call all sorts 0 animals ponies 1 I will send round your pony at 81 is a familiar phrase to me and in two cases it has always portended the arrival of an animal of quite I 1 have searched tor authorities for bome time past and only accidentally came epou one the other day A pony I 1 find it stated is strictly applicable to an animal under 13 hands above 13 and up to the creature should be knowin as a galloway and over becomes a horse this however la not the modern interpretation pre tation though when the phraseology was altered I 1 do not know according to the rules of polo the height of ponies shall not exceed 14 hands 3 inches and such an animal according to my old time authority would bo quite a full sized horse one cannot of course go against the fiur langham nomenclature but I 1 should be inclined to say that in general parlance anything under 14 bands in u pony I 1 am glad toy correspondent did not ash for an exact n cob for I 1 no better than suggest that a pony from about to would come under the head the term colby at adv sate baa a significance of ita own |