Down in a valley between two hills deep in the countryside there is a small stable: Smudge-Shine Stables. Now Smudge-Shine was a very special stables because it was home to lots of different ponies and horses that needed to be kept safe because there were not many left in the world. In the biggest field at the stables were five friends. Oats the Clydesdale, Sugar the Shire, Buzby the Dartmoor Pony, Pixie the Exmoor Pony and Chips the Miniature Pony. They were looked after by the Littleton Family and every day visitors would come from miles around to see the rare horses and they always stopped where the yearlings were the longest. Yearlings was a fancy term the humans used for any horse under four years old. They did not know this is what they were called because they just used their names.
