Friday, April 20, 2012 Fair Pony Farms Most of the ponies were
kept at the Erie County Fairgrounds, while twenty brood mares
were boarded at the Floyd Smith farm in Castalia, Ohio. William
H. Millspaugh, who was the founder of the Sandusky Foundry &
Machine Company, purchased the best Welsh ponies from several
different herds. He was looking for individual Welsh ponies
which had proven value in breeeding or in winning prizes. His
purchases resulted in a total herd of over eighty miniature
ponies. Mr. Millspaugh exhibited the ponies at local fairs. The
prize Welsh pony was “Temptation,” a chestnut pony with a blaze
face. Children, when accompanied by an adult, were invited to
visit the ponies at the Erie County Fairgrounds on Saturdays and
Sundays. The Millspaugh ponies were featured in the Plain Dealer
Weekly in September, 1919.