Delusion
Stallion
Colour: Brown, white star
Breed: Unknown
Type: Polo-bred
Foaled: 1906
Height: 12.0 hands
OKEMENT BOY (later called Delusion) Brown, white star, two white heels Foaled April 1906 Height 12.0 Measured September 29 1906 (Supplement 1906 to Volume 9)
Breeder Miss Imogen Collier
Sire: Turgot GSB
Dam: 940 Dream
DELUSION (late Okement Boy) Supplement 1906 brown colt 2 years old
Sire: Turgot GSB
Dam: 940 Dream
Bred by Miss Imogen Collier and now owned by Captain V. H. Scratchet, Sprydoncote, Exeter
(Dream was re-purchased from A.R. Bray who bought 940 Dream in 1906 (with foal at foot Okement Boy)
SHOW OF THE POLO AND RIDING PONY SOCIETY London 1908
Class 3 Two year old Entire Colts or Geldings not exceeding 14.1 h.h. Foaled in 1906 11 Entries
DELUSION (late Okement Boy) (Supp 1906) brown colt, 2years old Highly Commended
Sire: Turgot GSB
Dam: 940 Dream
Exhibitor, Capt V.H. Scratchley, Sprydoncote, Exeter
Breeder, Miss Imogen Collier
Delusion was sire of Will-o-the Wisp foaled in 1910, (who was bred by G.S. Anderson), when Brown Bread was exported to Argentina in 1909
WILL-O-THE-WISP
Colt
Colour: Brown, white star
Breed: Unknown
Type: Polo-bred
Foaled: 1910
Height: Unknown
Sire: Delusion
Dam: 1883 Brown Bread
Brown, white star. Foaled May, 1910
Breeder G.S. Anderson, Calle Maipu 131, Buenos Aires
Sire: Delusion (Supp.1906 Vol. IX., as Okement Boy)
Dam: 1883 Brown Bread, brown 14.2 by Dry Toast, chestnut, 16.0 (Vol. XVI., p.504) by George Frederick
G. dam: by (Old Vengeance), by Unknown Mare by Old Vengeance
Notes;
The “Will-o’-the-wisp” or “Friar’s lanthorn”’ a flame-like phosphorescence flitting over marshy ground (due to the spontaneous combustion of gasses from decaying vegetable matter), and deluding people who attempt to follow it. The name means “a foolish fire and is also called, “Elf- fire”, “Jack o’lantern”, Peg-a-lantern”, “Kit o’ the canstick”, “Spunkie”, Walking Fire”, Fair Maid of Ireland”. Or John in the Wad”. (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable)
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