Manipuri Pony

Manipuri Pony
Conservation status	FAO (2007): not at risk; DAD-IS (2020): unknown;
Other names	Manipur Pony; Meitei Sagol;
Country of origin	India
Distribution	Assam; Manipur;
Standard	Indigenous Horse Society of India
Traits
Height	usually 122–132 cm; up to 136 cm; ;
Colour	fourteen recognised colours
	Equus ferus caballus;

The Manipuri Pony (Meitei: Meitei Sagol; literally, "Meitei horse" or "Meitei pony") is a traditional Indian breed of small horse or pony from Assam and Manipur in north-eastern India. It appears both in the history and the mythology of Manipur, and was used for warfare and polo. It is believed to have been the polo pony in use in Assam in the mid-nineteenth century when British tea planters first saw polo being played, and the height limits set for polo ponies were based on ponies of this breed. It was very numerous in the early twentieth century, but numbers have since fallen. A breed society was established in 1977, and a breed standard was drawn up by the Indigenous Horse Society of India in 2009.^: 484

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