Mare
Colour: Dark bay
Breed: Dartmoor (Registered mare 2259)
Type: Polo and riding pony
Foaled: 1908
Height: 13.0 hands
Sire: Little Star
Dam: Queenie
LUCKY STAR II Volume 12 (1911-1912) of The National Pony Stud Book
DARTMOOR PONIES MARES
2259 LUCKY STAR II Whole coloured dark bay, Foaled 1908 Height 13-0
Measured February, 1912
Owner, Miss Imogen Collier, …….
Breeder, Moses Bawden, Tamar View, Tavistock
Sire: Little Star 315, brown, 12-1 ½ (by Bold Venture, brown Dartmoor 13-0, out of Star, Black Dartmoor, 12-1 ½)
Dam: Queenie, dark bay, 12-3 (by a Dartmoor pony, dark bay, 13-1
G. dam, Topsy, grey, 12-2, by Katerfelto
G.g. Dam, Dot, grey 12-2, by Hereford, dark bay, 13-0)
Prize:
1912 – Second, London Polo and Riding Pony Show (see Supp. 160)
Miss Collier bought Lucky Star II and Diana II together, from Moses Bawden in 1912 and took them to London for the Polo and Riding Pony Show, on Friday March 15th and 16th following the Thoroughbred and Hunter Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall. Both won prizes, Luck Star II coming Second.
1912 SHOW OF THE POLO AND RIDING PONY SOCIETY
MOUNTAIN AND MORELAND MARES Class 10
Mountain or Moorland Pony Mares likely to breed a Riding Pony, any age, not exceeding 14.2 – 10 Entries
2260 Diana II, dark bay, 5 years old First Prize £7
Sire: Lord Polo 135
Dam: Queenie (Dartmoor)
G.Dam: Topsy by Katerfelto
Exhibitor, Miss Imogen Collier
Breeder, Moses Bawden, Tamar View, Tavistock
2259 LUCKY STAR II, dark bay, 4 years old Second £4
Sire: Little Star 315
Dam: Queenie (Dartmoor)
G.Dam: Topsy by Katerfelto
Exhibitor, Miss Imogen Collier
Breeder, Moses Bawden, Tamar View, Tavistock
Lucky Star II and Diana II were sold to Miss Calmady-Hamlyn sometime in 1913.
Captain Joseph Oscar Muntz, (who was one of the judges), had the following to say ….both (Diana II and Lucky Star II were), bred by Moses Bawden of Tavistock, were daughters of the same Dartmoor pony. The second is particularly interesting as an instance of true riding type being bred from Moorland blood solely by careful selection and without a cross of Thoroughbred, Arab or Polo blood, (unless one was to consider the first entry, where Great grand dam Dot was said to be by Hereford G.S.B., (foaled in 1870) who was bay or brown and said to have been 13 hands high.)
Diana II survived the war as she produced various foals, one of the last being Dwarka’s Beauty,
in 1919. It is only to be hoped that Lucky Star II escaped as well.
LUCKY STAR II Volume 13 (1913-1914) of The National Pony Stud Book
DARTMOOR SECTION MARES
2259 LUCKY STAR II (Vol.12) Whole coloured dark bay. Foaled 1908
Height 13-0, February 1912
Breeder, Moses Bowden (Bawden), Tamar View, Tavistock
(2nd Owner Miss Calmady-Hamlyn, Bidlake Vean, Bridestowe, Devon)
Sire, Little Star 315, brown, 12-1 ½
Dam, Queenie, dark bay, 12-3, by a Dartmoor, dark bay, 13-1
G. dam, Topsy, grey, 12-2, by Katerfelto
G.g. Dam, Dot, grey 12-2, by Hereford, dark bay, 13-0
Prizes :
1913 – 2nd and 3rd Bath Horse Show