Unnamed Dartmoor Ponies running “on the moor” and sires to the Dartmoor Ponies owned by Mrs Joseph Oscar Muntz. (A dozen or so pony mares run with their stallion.) There has been much discussion over exactly what a Dartmoor Pony is. How tall? What colour? Should it be improved by the importation of other blood, Arab, Thoroughbred, Welsh, Hackney?

I think Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn, M.B.E., J.P., in her essay, The Dartmoor Pony, from The Book of The Horse, edited by Brian Vesey Fitzgerald, sums up the essence of the Dartmoor Pony
“The true Dartmoor pony is peculiarly the product of its centuries old environment and the gay spirit of these ponies is the result of their unchecked roaming over the large tract of tors and valleys that forms the forest of Dartmoor.
With no bounds other than traditional adherence to each herd’s quarter of the moor, these ponies have lived a semi-feral existence for centuries, with only the annual rounding up and pounding for the branding of young stock and the selection of those ponies destined for sale or breaking in for the owner’s use.
Obviously with no limit of fencing very varied blood has entered the breed: Arab, roadster, cob and thoroughbred, and the regular introduction by the moorsmen of Exmoor stallions and the famous Goonhillies of Western Cornwall, both in their day pure pony breeds which added to stamina without destroying type. Until the era of specialised breeding for pit ponies led to the introduction of the Shetland stallions, the type remained that of a quality riding pony.

In his book, “Country Matters in Short”, published in 1899 by William Frederick Collier, (Uncle to Miss Imogen Collier), he refers to “A Dartmoor Colt-Drift”, and says
“ ….. amongst which is the colt-drift, the ponies being locally called colts ……. but with the small head, little short ears, excitable eyes, and long shaggy mane and tail peculiar to himself. When galloping over the moor in a state of alarm, his mane and tail streaming in the breeze seem to be the principal part of him. In this state he is usually unbroken and shoeless, the period of his servitude to man not having yet arrived, and he looks as wild and untamable as any traditional beast of the forest need be. ……
This essay has been reprinted at a later date, in a book called, The Hound and The Horn, W.F. Collier Classic Tales of Moorland Hunting.

From Horse and Pony Breeds, General Editor Elwyn Hartley Edwards (Published 1980)
GOONHILLY The Goonhilly or Bodmin Moor pony was a descendant of the Palfrey, (Old English Road Horse) or Ambler, (a quality horse who paced rather than trotted) and has only disappeared from its Cornish home on Bodmin Moor and Goonhilly Downs in relatively recent years. It was similar to the Dartmoor pony being very hardy and strong and it was used primarily as a pack pony. It stood approximately 12.2 hands high, was fast and was capable of great endurance.

The following list is comprised of ponies belonging to Mrs J Oscar Muntz bred on the moor, or whose sire and dam are recorded as, ‘a Dartmoor Pony’.

Amber
3119 Blue Cross
4993 Brown Bess V
2417 Daisy Chain
Diamond III (Later Kavora Tom Thumb)
Fairy Tale (an unregistered Dartmoor Pony)
7430 Foxhams Black Fashion
2240 Foxhams Black Pearl
5618 Foxhams Blue Fairy
7912 Foxhams Blue Fairy II
Foxhams Chinchilla 1634
Foxhams Copper Orr
6049 Foxhams Daffodil
4493 Foxhams Dot
5619 Foxhams Foxglove
Foxhams Golden Bud
6984 Foxhams Golden Leaf
Foxhams Goldie Locks
5765 Foxhams Meadow Sweet
6053 Foxhams Mistor
Foxhams Mundic (foaled 1922)
Foxhams Mundic (foaled 1936, dam 6985 Foxhams Snowdrop)
Foxhams Pet
Foxhams Plymouth Brother 1572
6985 Foxhams Snowdrop
5766 Foxhams Sundew
6050 Foxhams Sundew II
Foxhams Tom Moody
4494 Foxhams Waif
Foxhams Whistman (dam Foxhams Golden Leaf)
6051 Foxhams White Heather
6052 Foxhams White Rose
6045 Foxhams Wild Rose
Foxhams Will-o-the-Wisp
Foxhams Wistman (stallion 2132, dam Foxhams Golden Leaf)
Grey Dartmoor, (dam of Punchenello)
Grey Foals, 1926, 27, 28, and 29, dam 6061 Foxhams White Heather
2853 Ice Maiden
2418 Keepsake
6798 Lent Lily
2624 Pink May (mare, see Horses)
2377 Punchenella
1814 Sea Pink (see Polo ponies before 1914)
6255 Silver Leaf II
Bay Fillies 1930, 31, dam 6255 Silver Leaf II
1815 Snowdrop (see Polo Ponies before 1914)
4264 The Dart II
Whortleberry

Ponies not bred or owned by Mrs J. Oscar Muntz but appear in the pedigrees of some of her ponies:

– Bessie II by a Dartmoor pony owned by H.B. Wonnacott (Pedigree of Brown Bess V)
– Dainty IV Dartmoor pony bred by Capt. J. Oscar Muntz and owned by H.B. Wonnacott (Pedigree of Petti-Sing)
– Dartmoor Dolly Dartmoor pony probably owned by Mr. Southcott (Pedigree of The Dart II)
– Dartmoor Queen (unregistered) Dartmoor pony bred by Frederick Ball (Pedigree of Marie-Rose  and Rose-Marie)
– Dot by Hereford (Pedigree of Lucky Star II)
– 2241 Duchess II a Dartmoor pony (grey) bred by F.R. Minhinnick (Pedigree of Guiding Star)
– Ginger II a Dartmoor pony bred by Edward Coulton and owned by John Hoare (Pedigree of Golden Harvest)
– Katerfelto (Pedigree of Little Star)
– King of the Forest (black) Dartmoor pony owned by Sidney Worden (Pedigree of Daisy Chain)
– 1656 Moor Maid Dartmoor pony purchased by A.R. Bray (Pedigree of Shamrock and Maxwell II)
– Moor Maid II by The Mikado bred by A.R.Bray and later purchased by Lewis Voden (Pedigree of Shamrock and Maxwell II)
– Polly by a Devonshire pony owned by, Yelland (Pedigree of Iolanthe)
– Queenie, a Dartmoor Pony Owned by Moses Bawden (Pedigree of Lucky Star II)
– 1659 Queen of The Moor Volume 9 1(905 – 1906) of The Polo Pony Society (Pedigree of Heather Mixture and Ling)
– Queen of The Moor 1st (winner of 1st Prize, Royal Show at Plymouth in 1890) (Pedigree of Ling)
– 826 Spec, a Dartmoor pony in the (Pedigree of Nutmeg IV)
– Topsy (grey) (Pedigree of Lucky Star II)
– Violet a Dartmoor pony bred by G.H. Horrell (Pedigree of Cup Moss, Stirrup Cup, Mossy Face, Moss Rose, Loving Cup and Kissing Cup)
– Virtuous Lady and Polly V Dartmoor ponies bred by Sidney Horrell (Pedigree of Silver Leaf II)