1883 BROWN BREAD
Mare
Colour: Brown, white star
Breed: Half-bred
Type: Polo pony
Foaled: 1896
Height: 14.2
Sire: Dry Toast
Dam: Unknown, by Old Vengeance
– 1883 Brown Bread brown, star, small fleck on N/side, single small spot on N/side neck under collar
– Foaled 1896 Height 14.2 Registered at Hurlingham No. 6530, by Dry Toast GSB (Volume 16 p. 504 ) chestnut foaled 1887 Height 16.0 by George Frederick
ex Tartine by Monseigneur Breeder was ? Sluggett, Morwenstowe, Cornwall
1st Registered Owner Miss Imogen Collier (in 1909)
(However J. Oscar Muntz owned her previously.)
Exported in 1909
2nd Owner G. S. Anderson, Calle Maipee, 131 Buenos Aires
a Brown Filly with a white star (Will -O-The-Wisp Foaled May 1910 was entered in Supplement 1910 the breeder was G.S. Anderson, sire Delusion Supp. 1906, bred by Miss Imogen Collier) was registered in Volume 11 of the Polo and Riding Pony Society Stud Book 1909-1910
Prizes won by BROWN BREAD
1906:
– 2nd Okehampton
– 1st Brentor and Lydford
1907:
– 1st Tavistock
– 1st Launceston
– 1st Devon County
– 2nd Brentor and Lydford
These prizes were won when Brown Bread was owned by J. Oscar Muntz
In 1909 Miss Imogen Collier’s Brown colt by Cruikshanks, was foaled and the following prizes were won;
1909:
– 1st Brentor and Lydford
– 1st (Polo Pony Brood Mares) local Devon and Exeter
(1st Prize £5 Polo Pony Brood Mare, registered or eligible for the Polo and Riding Pony Stud Book Devon and Exeter 1909)
– 1st (Polo Pony Brood Mares) open Devon and Exeter
(1st Prize £3 Pony Brood Mares not exceeding 14.2 to foal in 1909 or with foal at foot Devon and Exeter 1909
– Silver Medal Polo and Riding Pony Society Devon and Exeter
(As the best Polo Pony Brood Mare Brown Bread(Vol. xi) was awarded the Silver Medal of the Polo and Riding Pony Society (Medal A Brood Mares) Devon and Exeter 1909))
– 1st Okehampton
Brown Bread Foaled 1896, trained for Polo about 4 years old.
Finished playing and became Brood Mare 1906 (Property of J. Oscar Muntz )
Two foals for J. Oscar Muntz and one for Miss Imogen Collier
Finally, exported to Argentina in 1909 at 13 years of age, covered by Miss Imogen Collier’s Delusion (was Okement Boy)
Produce:
1907 – chestnut filly Breeder J. Oscar Muntz no name sire: Aperse GSB by Camballo
1908 – brown filly Breeder J. Oscar Muntz no name sire: Cruikshanks GSB
1909 – brown colt Breeder Miss I. Collier no name sire: Cruikshanks GSB
1910 – brown filly Breeder G.S. Anderson Will-o-the-Wisp (sire: Delusion supp white star 1906) Vol. 9 as Okement Boy)
BROWN COLT (foaled in 1909, by Cruikshanks GSB)
Colt
Colour: Brown
Breed: Unknown
Type: Polo-bred
Foaled: 1909
Height: Unknown
Foaled 1909 Bred by Miss Imogen Collier
Sire: Cruikshanks GSB (Volume 20 page 853) also Hunter 87, Brown, near fore coronet and near hind pastern white. Foaled 1903 Height 15.0 by Minstrel by Minting ex Testy by Xenophon g.dam: Festive by Carnival
Bred by Mr. Ludlow A. Beamish, Ashgrove, Queenstown, Co. Cork and Owned in 1907 by Mrs R.C. Bainbridge, Elforleigh, Plympton, Devon.
He sired a brown filly for J. Oscar Muntz in 1908 and a brown colt for Miss Imogen Collier in 1909. When the height for Polo Pony Stallions was raised to 15.0 h.h. in 1912, he was registered as a Polo Pony Stallion in Volume 12 of the Polo and Riding Pony Society, as number 584
Prizes:-
1912:
– 4th London Polo and Riding Pony Show
– Bath and West
– 3rd and Reserve Polo and Riding Society Silver Medal, Dam: 1883 Brown Bread
Notes:
(“Cruikshanks, who was placed forth, was one of the best ponies in the class, but was hopelessly handicapped by having broken his leg as a colt, and being crippled he was unable to show the paces”)
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