The Official Charity For the Preservation & Promotion of Suffolk Punch Horse
The Suffolk Horse Society is the only charity that raises money for all Suffolk horse breeders
Your donation will help fund research and breeding programmes to help protect this critically endangered breed
About The Suffolk Horse Society
The Suffolk Horse Society (SHS) was founded in 1877 and since then has maintained the stud book and the breed standard. We are the ONLY charity that supports all Suffolk horse owners and breeders.
Suffolk Horses are registered on the Priority list of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust,making them critically endangered. Less than 500 pure bred Suffolk Horses are registered in the UK now, making them more endangered that the Giant Panda. The Suffolk Horse Society raise funds to pay for breeding grants, showing grants, and for research into breeding techniques to prevent the breed from dying out.
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About The Suffolk Horse
The Suffolk Horse is one of the true icons of our county of Suffolk. It is one of the four British breeds of heavy horse bred for ploughing and pulling loads in farm work, and used for pulling guns and heavy supply waggons in the First World War. (The other established breeds of British heavy horse are the Shire, the Clydesdale and the Percheron.)
A more popular and older name for the Suffolk Horse is the Suffolk Punch. Its colour has to be chesnut, (always spelt in the traditional Suffolk way, without the middle t of chestnut).
