Kerry Bog Pony

Found in Ireland, the Kerry Bog Pony is almost estinct with only about 20 ponies left in all of Ireland.  Similar in size to a Shetland Pony, the Kerry Bog Pony is about 10 or 11 hands in height, and has a face that looks like an Arab.  The colors are chestnut with black manes, or sometimes grey or bay.

The small ponies were used for bringing peat and turf out of the bogs in Ireland, with the original technique of using baskets placed on slides (without wheels).  The horses would then pull these slides out of the bogs.  Later, little carts with wheels were created in the less boggy areas, and the turf was transported by the ponies by basket and brought for use as fuel for houses.