Can Alan Partridge save ponies from extinction?

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A pony named Alan Partridge has been selected by scientists to save the Exmoor breed from extinction. The award-winning 15-year-old stallion will donate semen to a gene bank as part of a campaign by the Exmoor Pony Society to secure the future of Britain’s oldest and “most iconic” native breed, noted The Times. Elsinore Alan Partridge was named after the British comedy character who “matches his spunky personality”. His owner said she is “very proud of him”.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.