New Forest Ponies with Tom Gould

We spent the weekend visiting a friend who lives in the New Forest.  Her son, Tom, is a Commoner and farms about 300 acres in the Forest.  On Sunday morning he took us out in his 4 wheel drive truck to see some of his ponies in the forest.  Rather than running away from humans, they stayed as they thought there might be food in the offing!  This is a group of mares with foals and yearlings at foot.  We also visited a stallion with a couple of mares and foals, but they hung about a steel gate and a barbed wire fence which didn't make nice photos.