The
Sable Island Horse, sometimes
Sable Island Pony, is a type of small
feral horse found on
Sable Island, an island off the coast of
Nova Scotia,
Canada. It is a small type, often
pony sized, but with a horse
phenotype and horse ancestors, and usually dark in color. The first horses were released on the island in the late eighteenth century, and soon became feral. Additional horses were later transported to improve the herd's breeding stock. They were rounded up for private use and sale for
slaughter, which by the 1950s had placed them in danger of extinction.