Astronomy | Foxhams Stud

Gelding
Colour: Brown
Breed: Anglo-arab
Type: Polo and riding pony
Foaled: 1933
Height: 14.2 hands

ASTRONOMY Supplement 1933 (to volume 21 of the National Pony Stud book)
COLTS
ASTRONOMY
Brown, white mark on edge of near nostril. Foaled March 15th, 1933 Height 12-0 ¾
Measured September 28th, 1933
Owner and Breeder, Mrs J. Oscar Muntz …..
Sire, Tabarin 1682, bay, 15-0
Dam, 6184 Asteroidel, chestnut, 14-1 ¼ , by Aldebaran (Approved Stallion Register, p.18), chestnut, 14-2
G.dam, 3390 Arthur’s Belle, chestnut, 14-2, by Arthur D, 593 bay, 14-3 7/8

ASTRONOMY Anglo Arab Stud Book (Volume IV? p.16) STALLIONS
ASTRONOMY
(15th March, 1933)
Brown; snip into near nostril
Sire ; Tabarin (T.B.) (G.S.B., Vol. 26 p. 1255), by Sir Toby out of Tamise
Dam : Asteroidel (Anglo-Arab) (Arab-bred Register 1929 & G.S.B., Vol. 26 p.41) by
Aldebaran (Arab) (A.H.S.B., Vol. 2 p.26 & G.S.B., Vol. 25 p.988), out of Arthur’s Belle
(T.B) (G.S.B., Vol. 26 p.41).

Astronomy is entered in the G.S.B., Volume 28, p.47 and is now a gelding

Breeder : Mrs Oscar Muntz ……
Owner : Kenneth G. Durrant, The Homestead, Oatlands Chase, Weybridge, Surrey

The Horseman’s Year 1952 Page 134 (… pre war … show ponies …)
“ ……..the late Mrs. Durrant’s pony, Astronomy, which the late Mr. Douglas Phillip’s daughter always rode side-saddle, and which won her class in the 14.2 hands at Olympia and afterwards the Championship.”

Performances of Anglo-Arab and part-arab bred stock in open polo bred classes at the N.P.S show, London 1938. ‘Class 19, Hacks’ (Polo-bred) Ridden side-saddle, 2nd Astronomy (Anglo-Arab Stud Book, vol 4 page 16 Mrs Oscar Muntz)

London Show 1938, Special Prize for ‘Best Novice in class 41’. Special: Astronomy (Anglo-Arab Stud Book, vol 4 page 16 Mrs K. G. Durrant)

London Show, 3rd and 4th March 1939, Special Prize for ‘Best Novice in class 44’ Reserve: Astronomy (Anglo-Arab Stud Book, vol 4 page 16 Mrs K. G. Durrant)

Riding Magazine July, 1939
“At the Bath and West 1st and 2nd in the 14-2 class were Love Knot and ASTRONOMY, both bred by Mrs Muntz.”

Astronomy was at Foxhams from 1933 until 1939 at least, I am not at all sure when he was sold to Mr K.G. Durrant.
However he was certainly a very successful,”show pony,” before the war, and only twelve years old after the war.