The Breed Read - Snapshot on the Icelandic Pony

Name: Icelandic pony
Nickname: none
Conformation: fairly heavy head, short and well carried neck, compact body, short back, deep girth, sloping and wedge shaped and very strong and muscluar hindquarters, strong limbs, short cannons, strong cannons, strong well shaped hooves
Height: 12 - 13 hh, occasionally bigger
Color: Any
Tidbit: Icelandic ponies are the best fisherman of all the equines. Actually, their the only. In the wild and winter, Icelandic ponies will stand in lakes and catch swimming fish with their teeth.
Tidbit 2: Once an icelandic pony crosses the country's border, they shall never see their homeland again. Iceland has strict laws about importing horses to keep out disease.

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