AN EQUINE event that dates back generations is set to take place at Chagford’s grass market this week.
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Nearly 400 Dartmoor ponies are due to go under the hammer courtesy of Rendells Auctioneers at the Pony Drift Sale at the venue on Thursday, October 10.
The semi-wild Dartmoor Hill Ponies are sold in the autumn at the traditional sale, the moor’s last surviving pony auction, which is always held on the second Thursday in October at Chagford Market.
The Drift Sale is run by the Dartmoor Hill Pony Association with assistance from volunteers of Friends of the Dartmoor Hill Pony charity.
The sale gets underway at 11am.