Episode 2. Sue Millard

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.

Sue Millard

Show notes

  1. The origins of the Fell pony that we know today

  2. The Beginnings of a recognised breed 

  3. The Galloway pony

  4. Shepherds meets

  5. Formation of Breed Societies

  6. The Dargue family and the Peepings trotting ponies

  7. The Sleddale ponies

  8. The Heltondale herd and Dales ponies

  9. The Wilson pony and the need to preserve the hill herds

  10. Commons rights

  11. Influences of other breeds

Find out more about the genetics of the Fell pony

Sue Millard with Coppyhill Suzanne, AKA Ruby