Nutmeg IV

Mare
Colour: Brown, white heel
Breed: Unknown
Type: Polo-bred
Foaled: 1909
Height: Unknown, not exceeding 14.2 hands

Sire: Button Park GSB
Dam: 1252 Junket (formerly Dot)


NUTMEG IV Brown filly with a white heel. Foaled in 1909 and bred by E.P. Northey, Higher Bowden, Oakhampton (Supplement 1911) height 14.1.
It is interesting to note that Nutmeg IV was bred in 1909, so she must have been sold as, ‘foal at foot’ to Miss Calmady-Hamlyn when she bought Junket, (formerly Dot), later in the year.
Miss Calmady-Hamlyn was then able to take (1252) Junket to Islington early in 1910.where she won the Mountain and Moorland Broodmare class, as an 11 year old.
Nutmeg IV, measured on 10th September 1912, and registered, by Miss Calmady-Hamlyn, Bidlake Vean, Bridestowe, Devon, this time, in Volume 12 of the Polo and Riding Pony Society in the section for fillies.

NUTMEG IV turns up next as the property of Miss Imogen Collier when she won at Devon County in May 1914, and could have arrived at Foxhams anytime during 1913.

DEVON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SHOW Totnes 19 – 21 May 1914
2 Classes 12 Entries
Polo Pony, made or unmade, not exceeding 14.2
First Prize £8 2435 Old Love GSB by Goring Heath Owned by Miss Imogen Collier
Second Prize £4 NUTMEG IV (Supplement 1911-12) by Button Park Owned by Miss Imogen Collier
The National Pony Society’s Silver Medal was awarded to Old Love
Reserve The National Pony Society’s Silver Medal to NUTMEG IV
Brood Mares, not exceeding 14.2 2 Entries
First Prize £5 2319 Peach Owned by Miss Imogen Collier
The National Pony Society’s Silver Medal was awarded to Peach
Reserve The National Pony Society’s Silver Medal to Nuts

Notes:
It is possible that Nutmeg IV may have been one of the horses taken for the war effort