The Pit Ponies
Are you looking for a special gift for the person who has everything? Why not adopt one of the pit ponies at the Museum for just £12.50 per year?
We guarantee that minimum effort will be required on your behalf and we won’t ask you to muck out! Your adoption pack will contain: a personalised adoption certificate, a colour photograph and factsheet about your chosen equine, a pit pony appeal enamel badge and a copy of the Pit Pony Express newsletter three times per year.
It costs around £2,000 per year to care for each of our equines. Your donations can help to pay for food, bedding, tack, rugs, fencing, shelter, shoeing and/or foot trimming, dental treatment and veterinary bills.
To adopt online, please click here or please click here to download a copy of our adoption leaflet.
Name: Patch
Breed: Cob, Born: 1993, Height: 14.3hh, Colour: Piebald
Description: Very mischievous and intelligent, Patch can open gates and untie ropes, but eating is his favourite pastime! Patch worked at Nant Fach Colliery in South Wales for about two years. Patch is now on long-term loan from the RSPCA and came to the Museum in 1999 when Nant Fach closed. He also performed for the Royal Family at Windsor in the ‘All the Queen’s Horses’ celebration for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002.
CLICK HERE TO ADOPT PATCH
Name: Finn
Breed: Clydesdale, Born: 2008, Height: 16.2hh (to make 17.2hh), Colour: Brown
Description: Finn came to the Museum in April 2010. He is very friendly, loves attention and in between taking a nap, he likes to watch everything that goes on in the stable yard! He has never worked in a coal mine, but horses of his size and type were once used in the mining industry to pull heavy loads of coal and to move materials.
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Name: Eric
Breed: Welsh Pony , Born: 2004 , Height: 12.2hh , Colour: Bay
Description: Eric is one of the Museum's newest residents, having arrived here in 2007 with Ernie. He was abandoned on winter grazing in a coalfield area of Wales by his owner, and was rescued subsequently by the RSPCA. A smart little pony who is quick to learn, Eric is the strong, silent type and takes most things in his stride.
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Name: Ernie
Breed: Welsh Pony , Born: 2004 , Height: 12.2hh , Colour: Bay
Description: A very cheeky pony indeed, Ernie loves attention and likes to show off to his adoring fans. Ernie came to the Museum in 2007 with his friend Eric, following their rehabilitation with the RSPCA. Like Eric, Ernie has never worked in a coal mine, but had the ponies been born a century earlier, they would more than likely have been employed as pit ponies in the deep mines of their native Wales.
CLICK HERE TO ADOPT ERNIE