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I was just looking through some pictures of mine that I have of him and felt like sharing with you guys. I absolutely love him! His name is Viper and we have been riding together for about 10 years now. He is a native mountain pony of the Philippines.


^^that's us around our first few months together. He works at a Western style horse-rental. I practically grew up with the "pony boys" as my nannies, so they'd let me run wild with their horses.

I think the Spaniards brought in their horses when they colonized, and they were draft mixes or something. The American's tried to cull and "improve" the stock that the Spaniards left (300+ years of breeding only within the Philippines had shrunk the horses down to pony size) but they found that taller, lighter horses were only valuable in the flatlands and that the native ponies had a fierce and hardy constitution. They were also long-lived. :) Kinda like Philippine mustangs or something!