Sarah Charlton who has been around the Linnel ponies in one way or another for the last 45 years. The Linnel ponies are one of the very oldest Fell Pony studs with a legacy as long as you arm.
This podcast was recorded in February 2022
The next generations, left to right Jennie, Persephone, Sarah and Lucie Charlton
Sarah Charlton has been around the Linnel ponies in one way or another for the last 45 years. The Linnel ponies are one of the very oldest Fell Pony studs with a legacy as long as you arm.
Sarah Charlton competing in X country with Linnel Mozart
Bob Charlton on Linnel Candytuft
Show notes
The Linnel stud
Early days with an old pit pony, a Welsh and a Dales
Jillarooing in Australia
Working for Roy Charlton in the 70’s and 80’s
The Linnel heritage
R B Charlton - A Lifetime With Ponies
The Dales Pony Improvement Society, pit ponies and milk floats
Rebuilding bloodlines
Highland ponies
Exporting Fell ponies to the Spanish ministry of Agriculture
Bob Charlton, chairman of the FPS
Bringing back old blood lines
Foal Imunodefficiency Syndrome
The next generation, the custodians of the herd
Fashion and the decline of work ponies
Returning to hill breeders for hardiness
Performance Trials
Fell and Highland Pony Camp
British Eventing horse trials
What about the future?
Ailee Newell
Sylvia McCosh and Dalemein
Roy Charlton, author of A Lifetime With Ponies, 1952
Roy Charlton’s book “A Lifetime With Ponies”
Linnel Ponies at House Steads on Hadrians Wall
Bob Charlton on Linnel Flighty
Grump, Granpa-Roy,-Gong-Gong and a young Bob Charlton