Welcome to the Fairytail Miniature Shetland Pony Stud web site. Updated 01/09/2011. We have included some very helpful and informative pages in our site. Please click on the links below to view. Copyright: Fairytail Stud 2010-2100 New Born Miniature Foals Playing 09 Here is a popular video to give you a taster for what this site is all about. Janette and Selwyn of the Fairytail Stud have bred these lovely tiny horses for more than twenty five years. We have learned many things along the way and now feel that we are able to share our experiences and knowledge with others. This web site is designed to give everyone the total knowledge to be able to look after and enjoy these wonderful little friends. Our aim has always been to breed small ponies whilst still keeping the quality, bone and especially the lovely kind and gentle temperament. We did that, in a brilliant way, time after time. We have specialized in trying to breed Homozygous TT ponies which means that they are guaranteed to breed coloured foals even from plain coloured partners. Please see the Tobiano page. We did that, 100%  proven with all of our coloured foals 2010. This paragraph is the most important part of my web site, “If you only like black or chestnut ponies then this site may not be for you. If however you have ever experienced the very different quiet, gentle and more intelligent nature of “coloured horses and ponies then this site is for you” or if you are interested, this site is interesting. A long time ago, the North American Indian’s realized that the coloured horses could be more easily trained than the black, bay and chestnut horses, so they bred coloured horses for many years and enjoyed a successful and happy life with their intelligent and friendly horses. Coloured horses have been frowned on since then for the wrong reason, they were linked to the baddies, north American Indians. Later Gipsy,s or travelling people also realized that these types of horses can actually be the best for humans, being slightly more intelligent than most but not all plain coloured ones. They found them to be better suited to human life, coloured ponies fitted in well with the family and were treated accordingly. You could chuck a child on one bare back and the horse would not do anything wrong. Many people will disagree with our findings which is fine, but we have had up to 110 ponies at one time of mixed colour and we found that the coloured ponies were always the best “pets”, with a natural friendliness to us humans and more suited to our ways. If you compare a wild wolf with a pet dog, they are both the same but they are not in their brains, it is the same in our eyes as comparing a Black miniature Shetland pony which can often can be the boss against a gentle and very intelligent coloured miniature Shetland, even if it is ok with us. We have had some lovely black stallions and mares with nice temperament, but they are rarely as good as the coloured ponies and they are always the bullies to the other placid coloured ponies when we mix. I hope that some of you will try to help us to breed more and more intelligent horses to help the whole World sort out many problems. Oil will not last for more than about 50 or more years then we will be back to horses or sun light which may be brighter then. I hope that I have not bored you too much with this and hope that you enjoy the rest of our web site. Kind Regards Selwyn & Janette