Hucul ponies are usually calm with a good disposition, and are used for both hacking and pulling timber in otherwise inaccessible forested areas.

Said to have originated in the Carpathian Mountain range of Eastern Europe covered by present-day Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia and Romania,[1] it is named after the small sub-ethnic Ukrainian group of Hutsuls.

The Huculs are probably depicted on the monuments erected by Roman Emperors Domitian and Trajan, as Dacian draft horses.

World War II caused a severe decline in the number of Hucul horses in Czechoslovakia.

In 1982 they established a stud book with fifty purebred animals and the goal of increasing the numbers in that region.

In 2004 Polish Horse Breeders Association was recognised by the European Union as keeper of the Studbook of Origin of the breed.