It’s believed that a record number of Dartmoor ponies enjoyed a wonderful tally of top placings at the UK’s most prestigious horse show, held last week at the NEC in Birmingham.

We were recently out at Bellever for a farrier day to trim the hooves of the ponies in our care that make up our conservation grazing herd on site.

This week we’ve been handling ponies from 3 different Dartmoor farmers. Some pedigree and some not; some for sale but others staying with their breeders or even – potentially- staying with DPHT!

Recently we had a very special group of visitors who wanted to find out about our work and meet our ponies.

The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust, whose Moorland site is on leased land at Bellever, Postbridge from Foresty England, has benefited from additional stone wall repair and construction training for its volunteer team who undertake so much good work at Bellever.

We are delighted to announce that photographer Malcolm Snelgrove has become the charity’s new patron.

We are delighted to announce that our good friend, Alex Graeme of Unique Devon Tours, has launched a rather unusual ‘Tour of Devon’ with the aim of raising funds for our charity and for the Donkey Sanctuary based at Sidmouth. 

The ponies are on two weeks holiday over the Christmas period as they need a break.

Councillor Avril Kerswell is well known within the Bovey Tracey and Teignbridge community, particularly for her roles in the local Council.

Shoppers at the Bovey Tracey, Devon Co-op stores at Riverside, Newton Road and Trago Mills, have helped to raise over £8,500 for local Charity, the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust, through the Co-op Membership scheme.

A Dartmoor pony called Basil is taking on the role of ‘Dartmoor Reindeer’ to work with Father Christmas as he prepares for his travels all over the world on 24th/25th December!

The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust successfully set up the sale of 12 young Dartmoor ponies, bred on Dartmoor, to four different homes and worth an income of over £5,000 shared between four different pony keepers, during the last month. 

In partnership with the National Trust, we celebrated Apple Day at Parke this Autumn.

MEET THE PONIES AT APPLE DAY AT PARKE – Saturday 29th September from 11am to 3pm Parke Estate, Bovey Tracey.

September 9th – September 30th open 2pm- 6pm daily.

Please support the Dartmoor pony Moorland Show, 2 September at Princetown.

We had the ‘name the foal’ competition for a little foal whose mum is called Langworthy Nuthatch and dad Lickfolds Sebastian – and it had to be a bird name.

DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS A NEW DATE WILL BE SET. WE APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.

As you know, we are in the process of reviewing our Open days and had put our original Summer 2018 calendar on hold. 

Again, a big Thankyou to you all.

Here is a good idea for keeping the family busy during half term – and enjoying an easy walk and exploration of Dartmoor!

Bovey Tracey-based Dartmoor Whisky Distillery has announced that it will be supporting the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust (DPHT), initially by ‘adopting’ George, one of the

Big thank you to the Co-op and its Members for supporting us. Bovey Tracey area Members have enabled us to receive a cheque for £4,785.75

Smartie and George with Dru spent and enjoyable morning walking the Lychway at Bellever with Tony Robinson filming for a new series of Ancient Tracks

Pony and Trap Fundraiser for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Trisha and her Dartmoor Heritage Ponies are driving a circular tour of Dartmoor following the Dartmoor Way

Many congratulations to a winning team from Langworthy Stud at Widecombe. Ken Edwards. Lizzie and Will Houghton have worked tirelessly to breed and produce some

The ponies arrived in Norfolk from Dartmoor in early April with ten ponies going to Hockwold and six to Cranwich Camp.  There is now a

On Saturday 6th May 2017, 18 Devon teenagers with a range of challenging life issues, from secondary schools Teign Academy in Kingsteignton, Teignmouth Community College

A Dartmoor based business will be supporting a Dartmoor based charity this year with a percentage from the sales of all its products being donated

During March and April, the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust, based at Parke, has been using its equine assisted learning programmes to prepare 18 Devon youngsters