Ponies weren’t accepted by the army, this is only the third one I’ve found going to the war, however as it was privately owned and by an officer, a blind eye was turned to his height. What a champion indeed, thank you Yalca.
Topsy was a famous performing pony – a Timor-Shetland cross, once a very popular cross. She stood 10.3 hands high. Performing through the 1940’s and ’50’s, Topsy was bred by Tom Dennis at Huntington stud, Dunbible, on the Tweed River northern NSW.
School ponies was once a class at agricultural shows, and also a prime mode of transport to and from school.
In November of 2018, amid serious bushfire in central east Queensland, two little brumby colts were caught in yards when cattle were mustered to save them from the fires.
We were very excited to be contacted by John Ellis via our website with a photograph of his grandfather mounted on a horse. John asked if the horse could possibly be a Waler, based on what he had been looking at on the website.
