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The Welsh mountain ponies are a strong breed going back to at least the Celtics. They are well suited to the extreme weathers they face on the mountain range of Snowdonia. In the Tudor times of around 1509 King Henry VIII ordered the ponies to be destroyed because they could not carry a knight in full armour, luckily they did not succeed. The Romans however admired the ponies for their strength and agility and used them whilst in wales and even shipped some of them back to Rome to carry out various tasks on their homeland.

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