[5] While all coat colours are acceptable, the traditional German colours fuchs (flaxen chestnut) and dunkelfuchs (burnt chestnut with flaxen or silver mane) are among the most common.

[5] From about 1965 breeders in Germany began to selectively breed the traditional Shetland Pony with the taller and more athletic American Shetland Pony, with the aim of creating a more elegant pony better suited to use for riding and driving.

[5] The 1961 American champion stallion Jiggs was imported, together with several mares.

[4]: 176 [6] In 2007 the conservation status of the breed was listed by the FAO as "endangered".

[1]: 49  In 2017 there were 58 stallions and 337 breeding mares, and the conservation status was listed by the Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung [de] as "not endangered".