The Yonaguni Horse
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The Yonaguni is a small native pony of the southwest islands of Japan. In 1996 there were about seventy-five living Yonaguni ponies on East and North Ranches on Yonaguni Island, located on the west side of the Yaeyama Islands. |
| Origin: Japan. | |
| Colour: usually chestnut. | |
| Height: about 11hh. | |
| Conformation: head is large with well-placed eyes and relatively small ears; the neck is short and thick; the shoulders tend to be straight; the back is long; the croup is often quite level with a high tail-set; the quarters are slight; the legs often tend to be splayed; the hooves are vertically long and very hard. | |
| Character: gentle in nature and very strong and enduring. | |
| Uses: n/a. |
