>> sized horse breeds. Also, no one who owns Icelandics calls them ponies >> so >> I >> think we can safely go and edit that one. > > > This came across another Icelandic list. Is this true? We refer to ours > as > ponies all the time. They're 13.3 and 13 h, for heaven's sake. I think > (if I remember correctly) some of the other Wikipedia Icelandic info was > very skewed.
Nancy, please let them know of the studies that have been done linking Icelandics to other northern European pony breeds via mtDNA: http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/equinet/origins http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=125071 http://www.sorraia.org/folheto.htm Just do a search on: icelandic horse study mtDNA Judy http://iceryder.net http://clickryder.com
