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A royal subject

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The Queen is lending her support to the fight to help one of Britain’s most endangered native breeds!

Four years ago the Suffolk Punch Horse Society gave HM a filly foal named Whitton Poppy who had been bred on a farm in Ipswich. Last May, Poppy gave birth to her own foal. The little chap is called Sandringham Sailor II after a Suffolk Punch who was once owned by Queen Elizabeth’s father, King George VI.

Before World War Two there were more than two million of these beautiful heavy horses in the UK but now there are less than 420 registered. So the Rare Breeds Survival Trust hope that Sailor will become one of the breed's registered stallions.

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Poppy and Sandringham Sailor II.

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