Talk:Australian Riding Pony

The Australian Riding Pony is a later different breed/type of pony to the APSB ponyCgoodwin (talk) 06:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

ASPB Pony? Is that another name for the Australian Pony?? Montanabw^(talk) 00:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

The APSB is the Aus Pony Stud Book pony already has an article. There are other ponies, too, but are more of registered type pony with little requirement for stud book ancestry other than those of the Arab crosses. Thank you for your assistance. Cgoodwin (talk) 02:27, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, OK ASPB is the Australian pony. I get it (Maybe toss the acronym into that article somewhere??). I take it that the Au Riding Pony is more of the Hunter/Jumper sort...? I have to say that so far I really would not be able to visualize the difference between the two types, precisely. (I'm kind of getting that the breeders of the German riding pony are basically trying to get miniature warmbloods, and the Welara is a straight crossbred...) so if we had an ASPB, an AU Riding pony, an English Riding Pony, a Type C Welsh, and a German Riding Pony all lined up together,(oh heck, throw in a Welara for good measure! LOL) how would we tell them apart? Assuming, for the purposes here, that we had ideal representatives of each... Montanabw^(talk) 05:59, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't think that we need add the acronyms which is in fact APSB. It is all very complicated, too, by the fact that quite a few of these ponies have at least 2 or 3 registrations. I tend to think of the ARP as a mini Tb, possibly with a similar temperament. Many of the old type ponies have a higher knee action than the Riding ponies and more placid temperament etc. I don't know much about the Arab cross types. In the days when I had ponies the only ones were the Au ponies and maybe the Arab crosses. At the moment I am trying to get approval to photograph a local ARP. Cgoodwin (talk) 06:18, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, I hope you manage to get a photo. Good luck! Montanabw^(talk) 00:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)