Mare
Colour: Chestnut, white tad-pole shaped star
Breed: Half-bred
Type: Polo pony
Foaled: 1907
Height: 14.2 hands

Sire: The Squire (Hunter 35)
Dam: Wild Girl

BUSH GIRL a chestnut mare, fourteen and a half hands high, with a tadpole-shaped star, foaled in 1907. She was, bred by Captain A. B. Brassey, of Cottesbroke, Northampton, a first class Tournament Pony, Hurlingham certificate 9608 and formerly owned by Captain Geoffrey Brooke.

Later, Bush Girl was owned by Captain Joseph Oscar Muntz and played polo during all of the 1913 and 1914 seasons. In 1914 she won a, “first prize,” at Yelverton.
Bush Girl was one of the, “pressed” horses during the war but she was turned down by the remount department as being too highly bred, and so she came back to Foxhams, with permission to breed from her, (Miss Imogen Mary Collier married Captain Joseph Oscar Muntz in February 1915, and they made their home at Foxhams.)
Bush Girl was registered in Volume 14 of the National Pony Society, (1915-1916) by Mrs J. Oscar Muntz, and covered by Bold Marco in 1915, Bush Fire was foaled in 1916.

At the London Show of the National Pony Society in , 1916 in Class 7, (Brood Mares, not exceeding 14.2 h.h., with foal at foot or to foal in 1916 – light-weight), Bush Girl won second prize. “A very nice pony,” reported the judges.
In the same class, at the London Show of 1917, Bush Girl won first prize, and a Gold Medal awarded by the National Pony Society for the best Polo Pony Brood Mare or filly in Classes 2,4,6,7,8, and 9. The judges Captain T. Wickham Boynton and Lieutenant Colonel J. Porteous said . . . “Bush Girl, a beautiful mare, spoilt by a docked tail, headed a nice class of mares,” her photograph appeared in the 1917 Supplement to Volume 15 of the stud book.
In 1919, at the Royal Agricultural Show, at Cardiff, (June 24th to 28th), in the class for . . . . Polo and Riding Pony Mare, with foal at foot, not exceeding 14.2 h.h., Bush Girl won third prize with her foal None so Pretty.

Again in 1920 Bush Girl won first prize. Mr Walter Jones on the breeding Classes, said ” . . . . Brood Mares, light weight. The winner “Bush Girl” is a polo pony all over (and unmistakably in foal) . . ” The foal was Bird in the Hand. Lieutenant Colonel H.N. Schofield, V.C., on Classes 1-12 was not quite so impressed he said, ” Those in Class 7, brood mares, light weight were fair,. . . ”
At the Devon County Show of 1920, Bush Girl won a second prize and at Brentor and Lydford Pony Show, on 2nd August, a first.

However at Brentor and Lydford on 1st August 1921, Bush Girl suffered the indignity of being disqualified for being over height, after she had won in her class, she was now fourteen years old, (letters were written . . . . and the National Pony Society responded, ” . . . that a mare registered in the National Pony Society Stud Book and accepted for Hurlingham should be accepted for their 14.2 Class. . . . ”
Bush Girl won a second prize that day but this seems to have been the last time she was entered for competition.

Her produce born at Foxhams were:
1916 – bay filly, Bush Fire by stallion Bold Marco
1917 – chestnut colt, London Pride by stallion Arthur’s Pride
1919 – chestnut filly, None so Pretty by stallion Arthur’s Pride
1920 – chestnut colt, Bird in the Hand by stallion Arthur’s Pride
1922 – bay filly, Bathing Girl by stallion Sea Bath
1926 – dark bay filly, Prettier Still by stallion Love Song
1928 – brown filly, Call of the Wild by stallion Love Song
1930 – chestnut filly, Love in the Bush by stallion Love Song
1932 – brown filly, Lovely Girl by stallion Love Song

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