Snowdrop
Mare
Colour: Grey, white tail and legs
Breed: Dartmoor
Type: Polo and riding pony
Foaled: 1903
Height: 11.1 hands
1815 SNOWDROP Grey, white tail and legs Foaled 1903 Height 11.1 h.h.
Purchased from J. Oscar Muntz in 1906
Registered in the Polo and Riding Pony Stud Book Volume 10 1907 – 1908
Prize 1908
(Prize One of 5 Premiums of £1, Dartmoor Brood Mares not exceeding 13.0 Brentor & Lydford 1908
The foal was Catkin Foaled June 1908)
BRENTOR AND LYDFORD PONY SOCIETY 3 August 1908
Judge J. Oscar Muntz, Goodameavy, Yelverton
Dartmoor Brood mares not exceeding 13.0 h.h. £2 and 5 Premiums of £1 6 Entries
Third and £1 Premium 1814 Sea Pink by Dartmoor Pony Owned by Miss Imogen Collier
Fourth and £1 Premium 1815 SNOWDROP by Dartmoor Pony Owned by Miss Imogen Collier
Sixth and £1 Premium 1659 Queen of the Moor by Dartmoor Pony Owned by J. Westaway Daw(e)
Miss Collier purchased Snowdrop, who may only have been, ‘halter trained for the shows.’ from Joseph Oscar Muntz in 1906, and she must have been at Foxhams until at least 1909.
Captain Muntz owned The Mikado, who arrived in 1905.
In 1907 The Mikado covered Snowdrop, in 1908 Catkin was foaled, whom he later repurchased.
(Possibly after Miss Collier had trained him for polo)
Captain Muntz was a very good polo player, he and Miss Collier did not marry until 1915.
CATKIN
Colt
Colour: Bay, white star
Breed: Unknown
Type: Darmoor x Polo and riding pony cross
Foaled: 1908
Height: Unknown
CATKIN Bay colt, white star Foaled 1908. Vol. 10 (1907-1908) Polo and Riding Pony Society
Sire: The Mikado Fell 200 ( In 1908, now owned by J. Oscar Muntz)
Dam: 1815 Snowdrop Dartmoor Pony
It is possible that Catkin was a, “first cross” with the hope of a good “polo or riding pony.”
Since Catkin was owned by Captain J. Oscar Muntz it is probable that he was requisitioned for the war effort.