Filly
Colour: Chestnut
Breed: Unknown
Type: Polo-bred
Foaled: 1907 (arrived with Turtle)
Height: Unknown

Sire: Curly GSB
Dam: 1801 Turtle

LOVE LOCK chestnut filly, white blaze and hind feet Foaled 1907 Breeder Thomas Yelverton

sire: Curly GSB Volume 17 p.386
dam: 1801 Turtle

1801 Turtle was registered in Volume 10 of The Polo and Riding Pony Society Stud Book 1907-1908 by Miss Imogen Collier under Polo and Riding Pony Mares and their Produce.
Love Lock is registered as produce for 1907 and the breeder is Thomas Yelverton.
The next foal is Water Baby 1908 bred by Miss Imogen Collier.

DEVON AND EXETER HORSE SHOW 17 July 1907
Classes 3 Entries 28 Prizes awarded £24
Pony Brood Mares not exceeding 14.0 to foal in 1907, or with foal at foot
Second Prize £2 Turtle by Freshwater Owned by T. Yelverton The foal was LOVE LOCK
Third Prize 940 Dream, now owned by A. R. Bray (the foal Hallucination)

Polo Ponies, made or unmade not exceeding 14.2 12 Entries
Bluebell by Flaxby Owned by Miss Imogen Collier
Blue Fox by Vitez Owned by Miss Imogen Collier

FAREHAM AND HANTS FARMERS CLUB 31 August 1911
2 Classes 20 Entries
For the Best Polo Pony not exceeding 14.2 14 Entries
Reserve Curly Owned by Captain R.E. Cecil

CURLY GSB bay colt Foaled 1892 by Royal Hampton
Bred by Sir J. Blundell Maple

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Note
‘At the end of 16th century the Love-Lock was a long lock of hair hanging in front of the shoulders curled and decorated with bows and ribbons’ – Dictionary of Phrase and Fable