Colt
Colour: Black
Breed: Unknown
Type: Dartmoor x Hackney cross – Riding pony
Foaled: 1919
Height:  Unknown

Sire: Findon Grey Shales
Dam: 3119 Blue Cross

BLACK COLT 1919 Volume 14 and 15 (1919-1920-1921) of The National Pony Stud Book
BLACK COLT Foaled 1919
Owner and Breeder, Mrs J. Oscar Muntz …..
Sire, Findon Grey Shales
Dam, 3119 Blue Cross (Vol.14)
(Blue Cross was owned after 1919 by The Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Cotehele House, St. Dominick, Cornwall)

Findon Grey Shales, the sire of the Black Colt foaled in 1919, was an interesting horse. He was winner at the Hackney Show at Newmarket and descended from the Original Shales .
Possibly the last of his line.
Owned by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales and kept at High Tor. He was acquired in 1918 by Mr Fenton (agent) who was very pleased they had a “Shale, stallion down here”.
Described by someone who saw him, “Imagine the excitement at Tavistock in 1918 with the arrival, from America of Grey Shales, a roadster shown on long reins, his beautiful extended action leaving the audience of local farmers absolutely spellbound and the thought of a steady ten miles an hour materialising as they watched.”
However the era of the motor car had arrived and the era of the carriage was in decline.
It is said that, “Findon Grey Shales,” was the sire of some very good fourteen-stone hunters in the West, perhaps the Black Colt was a hunter too.