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.

Sarah talks about her 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.

We move on to the Linnel heritage, R B Charlton’s book “A Lifetime With Ponies”, the Dales Pony Improvement Society, pit ponies and milk floats.

Sarah talks about rebuilding bloodlines, Highland ponies, and exporting Fell ponies to the Spanish ministry of Agriculture.

Bob Charlton was chairman of the FPS at the time of the Foal Imunodefficiency Syndrome, and talks about the next generation, the custodians of the herd, fashion and the decline of work ponies and returning to hill breeders for hardiness.

Performance Trials, Fell and Highland Pony Camp, British Eventing horse trials

and then asks What about the future?