Timor Ponies are strong, frugal, and agile, and have a quiet and willing temperament.

The ponies have a narrow frame, short back, muscular neck, prominent withers, and a sloping croup.

The ponies usually stand 10 to 12 hands high (40 to 48 inches (102 to 122 cm)), and are usually brown, black, and bay, but a few are gray.

The Flores Pony is usually around 12.1 hh and the dominant colors are bay and chestnut.

[3] The Timor Pony is referenced in the poem The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Paterson,[4] first published in 1890.