Mare
Colour: Brown
Breed: Unknown
Type: Polo and riding pony
Foaled: 1908
Height: 14.0 hands 1/2 inch

Sire: Prince Kendal
Dam: Duchess

2852 SLIP-AWAY brown Foaled 1908 Height 14.0 ½ Breeder A.W.R. Taylor, The Hawthorns, Sidbury, near Sidmouth , Devon Measured 22 OCTOBER 1914 NPS Stud Book Volume 13, 1913-1914 Page 56 Polo and Riding Pony Mares. Bought by Miss Imogen Collier in 1914
Sire : Prince Kendal GSB by Kendal
Dam: Duchess (brown 14.0 h.h.)

Prize :
1913 Third Ivybridge

It seems possible that Slip-Away was sold to Major S. A. Medcalf. T. D. (later Lt.-Col. Sydney A. Medcalf, T.D.) of Aylands, Waltham Cross Herts. In The Arab-bred Register of 1929 the following entries appear :-

Supplementary List Mares
Ayland’s Pet 1921
Bay ; black points
Sire : Shir-ul-Harakah (Arab-bred Register, 1921, p.49)
Dam : SLIP-AWAY (National Pony Stud Book, 2852) by Prince Kendal (General Stud Book Volume 17 p. 767), out of Duchess

Honour at Show, page 60
LONDON SHOW March 2nd and 3rd 1928
…….
Class 23 Riding Class – Arab-bred Stallions, Mares and Geldings
Reserve Ayland’s Pet Major S.A. Medcalf

Breeder and Owner : Lt-Col. Sydney A. Medcalf, T.D., Aylands, Waltham Cross, Herts

Supplementary List Stallions
Black Prince 1923
Black ; off hind pastern white.
Sire : Menebhi (Arab-bred Register 1921 p.48)
Dam : SLIP-AWAY (National Pony Stud Book, 2852) by Prince Kendal (General Stud Book Volume 17 p. 767), out of Duchess
Breeder and Owner : Lt-Col. Sydney A. Medcalf, T.D., Aylands, Waltham Cross, Herts

It would seem that Slip-Away, foaled in 1908, bought by Miss Imogen Collier in 1914, trained and sold for polo some time later, came into the possession of Major Medcalf.
She probably played polo for some years before producing Ayland’s Pet in 1921 at the age of thirteen, and Black Prince, at fifteen, in 1923.
It is to be hoped she lived out her life at Waltham Cross as it is clear she survived 1914-18, perhaps she did go off to war but came back with Major Medcalf.