Mare
Colour: Brown, white blaze
Breed: Unknown
Type: Thoroughbred polo and riding pony cross
Foaled: 1907
Height: 14.2 hands

Sire: Turgort GBS
Dam: Polly

2233 IOLANTHE brown, white blaze and hind fetlocks. Foaled 1907 Height 14.2 June 1911 Breeder ? Yelland, Nethercott, Iddesleigh, Winkleigh, N. Devon. I think she was bought as a four year old (possible polo pony in 1911) and registered in Volume 12 of the Polo and Riding Pony Stud Book in the Polo and Riding Pony Mares Section with the number 2233
Prizes: 1910 1st, 2nd and Cup Oakhampton (probably owned by ? Yelland at this time)
1911 In Polo Classes
1st and Polo and Riding Pony Silver Medal, Devon County at Newton Abbot (this was Silver Medal E awarded to Polo and Riding ponies)
1st Tavistock
1st St Budeaux
1st and Special Paignton
1st Crownhill
2nd Ivybridge
1st (competition) Yelverton
1st Holsworthy
1st Devon and Exeter
1st South Brent
1st Plymton

ROEHAMPTON CLUB SHOW 16 June 1911
Four year old Class For ponies, four years old, likely to make Polo Ponies not exceeding 14.2
8 Entries
Reserve 2233 Iolanthe Owned by Miss Imogen Collier

In Hack Classes
1st Ivybridge
1st and Special Paignton
1st Brentor and Lydford
4th International at Olympia
1st Launceston
1st Crownhill
1st Okehampton
Reserve, Bath Horse Show
The strange thing about Iolanthe is that there is no record of her after 1911
She is not recorded as having a Hurlingham number although she was probably trained.
Perhaps she was sold ready to play for the 1912 season
Or sold as a Hack, or worse later went to war.

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