Bridegroom

Colt
Colour: Iron grey, star
Breed: Unknown (Dartmoor Cross)
Type: Polo and riding pony
Foaled: 1934
Height: September 1934, 12.2 hands

Sire: Love Song 1065
Dam: 6052 Foxhams White Rose


BRIDEGROOM Supplement 1934 (to Volume 21 of The National Pony Society
1934-1935-1936)
COLTS
BRIDEGROOM
Iron grey, star. Foaled April 28th 1934. Height 12-2 Measured September 22nd, 1934
Owner and Breeder, Mrs J. Oscar Muntz …….
Sire :- Love Song 1065, brown 14-2
Dam :- 6052 Foxhams White Rose, grey, 12-1
G.dam:- Dartmoor pony, bay, 12-0


By the early 1930’s the Dartmoor Ponies, in general were in decline. Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn purchased Dinarth Spark and started her campaign to, “save the Dartmoor Pony,” as it were.
There were difficulties and rows within the The Dartmoor Pony Society and Mrs Muntz seems to have withdrawn, to concentrate more on The National Pony Society.

She also seems to have reverted to using her best Dartmoor Ponies, “to cross with her small thoroughbreds,” being loath to give up the idea that the first and second crosses make perfect riding ponies.
Bridegroom was, “a first cross” and Bridal Veil, “a second cross.”
There does not seem to be any other reference to Bridegroom, He would have been at Foxhams from 1934 until about 1938, perhaps longer.