Mare
Colour: Dark bay, star
Breed: Dartmoor
Type: Riding pony
Foaled: 1919
Height: 12.1 hands 1/2 inch
Sire: Dartmoor pony
Dam: Bessie II
BROWN BESS V Volume 19 (1925/26/27) of the National Pony Society
DARTMOOR PONIES MARES
4993 BROWN BESS V Dark bay, star Foaled 1919 Height 12.1 ½ Measured May, 1924
Brand W near side saddle
Owner, Mrs J. Oscar Muntz
Breeder, H.B. Wonnacott, Whistleigh, Yelverton, Devon
Sire: Dartmoor pony
Dam: Bessie II, (12.2 hands), by a Dartmoor pony, bay, 12.2
Prizes: 1921:
1st Roborough
2nd Devon County
3rd Wotton
1923:
2nd Cornwood
1924:
2nd Roborough
Brown Bess was five years old before being measured and bought by Mrs Muntz.
She seems to have run on the moor for those first five years, then been broken, trained and ridden in shows from 1921 to 1924, where she was successful.