2022 count

All ages are what ponies will be as of the 01/08/2022.

After careful consideration, and to make these counts more accurate, this year I have changed the age group for what is consider breeding age for mares. This age group will now be used throughout all future breed counts.

In these census, A breeding aged mare is considered 3-20 years of age as of the 01/08/2020.

Although there are some mares breeding past the age of 20, there are a large number in between the 3-20 years that are not breeding at all, for various reasons.

PUREBREDS

^{All purebred highland ponies under the APSB registered under HL section 1}

142 mares. 15 over 20 years. 21 fillies two years and under.

= 91 breeding aged mares

21 Stallions. 2 retired.

= 19 breeding stallions

6 colts, two years and under with the potential of being grown out with the intentions of keeping entire.

110 geldings.

TOTAL PUREBREDS = 279

From the Ballinton Islay Sky bloodline

^{This line of ponies started of registered under the Highland Pony Society of the UK’s appendix program. Ballinton Islay Sky was an appendix A mare with two of her foals being appendix B when imported to Australia. These ponies, once reaching the required levels, would have been eligible for purebred registration in the UK.}

^{These ponies have been placed under the Australian Highland Pony Breed Up Program.}

Having reached purebred status and upgraded, as well as their descendants;

5 mares and 3 gelding

as well as 3 mares at FS2 and 11 geldings at AHL inside the breed up program.

TOTAL = 8 purebreds & 14 inside the breed up program.

From the Australia Highland Pony Breed Up Program

^{The Australian breed up program consists of 5 levels.}

^{Mares from pony like mares of a certain height by Highland Pony stallions enter at the appendix level.}

^{Those mares are then breed back to purebred Highland Pony stallions and the resulting fillies progress up the levels, the levels being FS, FS1, FS2 and then purebred, where a mare is then eligible to apply for purebred upgrading into the Highland Pony studbook within the APSB.}

^{All male offspring inside the breed up program must be gelded and are registered as Australian Highland Ponies.}

^{Once a mare has gained purebred registration the gelding rule does not apply.}

Having reached purebred status and upgraded, as well as their descendants;

1 stallions, 22 mares with 7, with 2 years and under and 6 geldings

And those still at various levels within the program;

2 Appendix mares

3 FS mares, with 1 over 20 years and 1, 2 and under.

5 FS1 mares

3 FS2 mares with 1 over 20 years

19 geldings.

TOTAL = 29 purebreds & 32 inside the breed up program.

Census complied on the 12/03/2022 by Amy Young