Filly
Colour: Chestnut
Breed: Unknown
Type: Dartmoor x Arab cross – riding pony
Foaled: 1917
Height: Unknown
DARLING OF THE GODS Chestnut Filly Foaled 1917
Volumes 16 and 17 (1919-1920-1921) of The National Pony Stud Book
Dartmoor Section Mares
Sire, Feysul 407
Dam, 3745 Fairyland (Supp. 1909)
Feysul, an Arab Horse, was imported in 1904 by Mr W.S. Blunt. Foaled in 1894, he was 23 years old when he sired Darling of the Gods.
Quite how he came to sire Fairyland‘s foal, is not clear, unless towards the end of his life he came West. Perhaps her name is indicative of a “swansong”.
Notes:
Andrew Marvell 1621-1678, from the picture of little T.C.
“Who can foretell for what high cause this darling of the Gods was born?”