'Landward', Scotland's farming and countryside programme which focuses on the issues affecting the community, is running an episode on sustainable farming. This will feature Kinclune Organic Livestock Farm and Highland Pony Stud, owned by Past HPS President Marguerite Osborne together with her family.  The programme includes an interview on Conservation grazing using Highland ponies and Aberdeen Angus cattle with HPS member, Aylwin Pillai.  HPS Judge and past Council Member, Virginia Osborne-Antolovi, will be seen herding the cattle on one of the stud's stallion, Fandango na Dailach. The programme will be aired on Thursday 21 October at 8.30pm on BBC Scotland and on Sunday 24 October at 9.30am on BBC2 in…

Grace Bushby and Team recently organised a very successful Virtual Highland Pony Show which offered 42 classes. There were over 200 Highland ponies entered and all entry fees were very generously donated to the HPS. Council will make a decision about the use of this donation which is expected to be used to help educate people further about the breed through study days/webinars and seminars. The competitors covered a broad spectrum of people both HPS members and non-members with family ponies, RDA ponies and competition ponies as well as numerous breeders. The deserving Supreme Champion of the show was Dalesman of Combebank owned and exhibited by Linda Graham and bred…

The  Council of the Highland Pony Society is delighted to announce that a series of five monthly presentations, all relevant to the Highland pony breed will be held between October 2021 and March 2022. What a great chance to find out more in the winter months when days are short! There will be ample provision for discussion and questions at every presentation. Here is the timetable with a note of the speakers and the subjects they plan to cover: Thursday 28 October 2021 – Using many really interesting visual aids, Sylvia Ormiston MVO, Stud Manager at Balmoral will present on breeding Highland ponies and producing a working hill pony. Thursday…