History
 

2010 - The annual Auction has been moved to Easter Saturday. The Society have decided that if the demand is there, Brumby;s can be sold out side of the auction day.

All mares that are being used in the breeding programme are descendents from the original stock that was shipped to the Eyre Peninsula in 1839 from the Timor Islands. This year a new stallion has been introduced. he is from the Oxley Heritage Brumby group which roam in the Oxley national park in N.S.W. He has many similar characteristics to our own herd.
The Society are eagerly awaiting the outcome.
 
2009 - Brumby's Run is now established Facilities have been added. there is now 2 toilet Blocks and Shower, BBQ Area, permanent yards for handling the brumby's and a hay shed is under construction. The Society is always looking for new members so if you are interested in helping preserve these special animals please get in contact with us. Donations are gratefully accepted as we still need to raise money to pay the government back their loan. The $100,00 the society needed to raise has been achieved.
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2008 - The Society have changed their name from pony to BRUMBY. Two reasons for this 1) Some pony's are out growing the pony size. Pony 14hh and under Galloway; Over 14hh. 2) There is now a new society, Australia wide, known as the The Australian Brumby Alliance. We are part of this society. Their main aim is to save the Brumby and have them recognized as part of Australian Heritage. As a united body lobbying Governments, National Parks and any other sources could be great benefit to all brumby groups. Hopefully with a voice Australia wide the Brumby will be acknowledged for their heritage value an be able to roam in the National parks as they have done for generations.
2004- The Pony's have made Brumby's run their new home. The Mares are rearing their foals and all looks good for the future. Now The mares are being looked after and fed on a regular basis (due to a massive cut in grazing land) the foals are growing out to become bigger pony's or small galloways.
2004 - In February 2004 the mares and foals were successfully moved to their new home on the land known as Brumbies Run. The Historic Ponies have settled in well to their new land. The intensive fund raising is now underway.

2003 - Minister John Hill signed away the ponies' future in the park. After much public outcry about the lack of consultation from the Office of Environment and Heritage, the Society has been in deep discussions with the department about the purchase of land near the Coffin Bay township. This land should be their home. The historic ponies will be moved early in 2004 when the mares have had their foals. An intensive fund raising program is being set up to purchase this land for the Coffin Bay Ponies.

1999 - The Coffin Bay pony's future is again uncertain. The release of the Parks and Wildlife's Draft Management Plan and the proposal of a Wilderness Zone for the area, will most certainly impinge on the grazing and breeding area of the small herd left in the Park, and severely restrict the Pony Society's capabilities to manage and monitor the herd as they have done in the past.

1991/92 - The first Management Agreement was entered into between the Coffin Bay Pony Society and the National Parks and Wildlife. This Agreement allowed that although the ponies at that stage were having an environmental impact on the Park, that they did have some historical significance and should be allowed to maintain a small herd in the wild.

The agreement allowed for a herd of 20 mares and their offspring and one stallion. Trapping would occur yearly and the excess stock would be removed These ponies are then handled and auctioned, with a predetermined price per head, being paid to Parks and Wildlife Department. This agreement has been monitored and reassessed each year since inception, and updated if the need arises.

1980's - The ponies of the Coffin Bay Peninsula, faced removal from their long time home under Parks and Wildlife "pest control " program. Concerned locals banded together to form the Coffin Bay Pony Society, a volunteer group dedicated to keeping the ponies in the Park. Negotiations began for a management and control program which would allow a compromise, whereby the ponies would be allowed to stay in their home of over 100 years, but in a controlled and managed situation.
1972 - Geoff Morgan ceded the Coffin Bay Run to the S.A. Government to be used as a National Park. The pastoral history of Coffin Bay Peninsula was at an end.

1932 - Morgan family bought the Coffin Bay Run. For a period of time during the depression, the pony once again enjoyed a return to popularity. As petrol became unaffordable and unobtainable, the ponies became invaluable as machinery sat rusting in paddocks, unusable. Excess stock at times were taken to Port Augusta for sales.
After peace was declared in 1945, the demand again dropped, as more workers returned to the area and the ponies were no longer needed in such numbers. Moss Morgan, for many years, made a modest living, partly assisted by the catching and breaking of wild ponies for sale to locals as riding ponies. Many locals can still remember local Coffin Bay ponies as buck jumpers at the local rodeos.

1927 - Coffin Bay Run was sold to Martin Cash. Towards to end of the Mortlock era, maintenance of the Run had become erratic and progress had taken its toll on the financial success of breeding horses. At this stage in their history, the ponies became wild and unmanagable to a large degree, becoming large in number and a problem for the new owner. This led to culling and mass destruction to reduce numbers.
1857-58 - Coffin Bay Run was sold to W.R.Mortlock, who saw the potential of this hardy little pony and brought in selected stallions to expand their versatility by adding height and enhancing natural characteristics. Stallions brought in are said to have been Welsh Cob, Thoroughbred and Arabian. This selective breeding resulted in much sought after specialty larger size ponies and horses, with buyers coming from interstate and overseas to purchase 4 in hand, matched pairs, polo ponies and Army remounts.
1847 - The Timor ponies were moved to the new lease at the Coffin Bay Run to stock Hawson's new pastures and to expand his growing business.
1841 - Edward John Eyre purchased a pregnant Timor pony mare from Mr. Dutton, the manager of Mr. Driver's property to take with him on his expedition across the Nullarbor Plain to Esperance. He paid 25 pounds for his purchase. The mare foaled at Streaky Bay and the foal accompanied the famous explorer on his expedition.
1839 -" ABEONA" landed the Hawson family at Happy Valley. With them were 60 Timor ponies, the ancestors of the Coffin Bay ponies, bought by Captain Hawson from the Rajah of Sumatra, to be used for breeding horses for the Eyre Peninsula.