Stallion
Colour: Bay
Breed: Thoroughbred
Type: Unknown
Foaled: 1908
Height: 15 hands

Sire: Pride
Dam: Maquay

ARTHUR D GSB (Vol. 21 p.491) bay colt, foaled 1908, bred by Mr. R. Botterill.
Winner of a 2 year old selling race at Harpendon, ridden by George Duller.
Polo and Riding Pony Stallions (Volume 12) Arthur D 593 Owners Sir John Barker, Bart.

1912:
– 1st and Champion Gold Medal, London Polo and Riding Pony Show
– 1st Roehampton
– 1st Tunbridge Wells
– 2nd and Reserve Polo and Riding Pony Society Gold Medal, Royal Agricultural Society of England at Doncaster
– 2nd Bath and West

1913:
– 2nd and Reserve for Champion Gold Medal, National Pony Society, London Spring Show
– 1st and Silver Medal, National Pony Society Roehampton
– 1st Romsey Horse Show
– 1st Yorkshire, at York

1914:
– 2nd and Reserve for Champion Gold Medal, National Pony Society, London Spring Show
– 1st and Silver Medal, National Pony Society, Bath and West, at Swansea
– 1st and Silver Medal, National Pony Society Roehampton
– 3rd Royal Agricultural Society of England, at Shrewsbury
– 1st Yorkshire, at Bradford

1915:
– 2nd and Reserve for Champion Gold Medal, National Pony Society, London Spring Show
– 16th April, at the Dispersal Sale by order of the Executors of the late Sir John Barker, Arthur D was purchased by Mr. Bertram W. Mills

1916:
– Highly Commended and Reserve for Premium, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, National Pony Society, London Spring Show

1919:
– At the Royal Agricultural show at Cardiff 24-28th June 1919, in the class for stallions foaled in or before 1916, (not exceeding 15 hands) Arthur D 593 won 2nd prize. He was owned by Captain Bertram Mills.

Arthur D was sire of Arthur’s Pride and Arthur’s Belle. Also sire of 3992 Waiting Maid who was the Dam of Pretty Maid (Polo and Riding pony)

Note:
In 1912 at the London Show of The Polo and Riding Pony Society, Arthur D won the Open Stallion Class. He was described in the Judge’s Report by Mr J. Oscar Muntz. “ …. Arthur D, a fifteen hand four year old stallion. Being lately out of training, he was less furnished than some of the others, but with his neatly placed head and neck, oblique shoulders, short back and natural balance, he should sire stock of ideal conformation for polo.”

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