Miriam and Dena up

Mare
Colour: Brown, streak, white off hind fetlock
Breed: Half-bred
Type: Hunter
Foaled: 1885
Height: 14.1 hands 1/2 inch

Sire: Progress
Dam: Unknown, sired by Hereford

MIRIAM was a brown mare, with a streak, and her off hind fetlock white. She was foaled in 1885 and bred by the well-known Master of Foxhounds, Vincent Pollexfen Calmady, of Tetcott, Holsworthy, North Devon who was, “Master of the Tetcott Foxhounds, ” for seventeen seasons, prior to his death in 1886.

Miss Imogen Mary Collier hunted Miriam for eleven seasons, with the Dartmoor, Lamerton, and Tetcott Foxhounds. An early book on Devon, pictures the, “Tetccott,” terrain as follows, “The Tetcott hounds hunt a wild and sporting Country some thirty miles long by ten wide, situated on the borders of Devon and Cornwall, and embracing the whole of the rugged and precipitous stretch of coastline lying between Hartland Point and Crackington Haven. Foxes are wild and strong, and good runs are frequent. . . . .”

At the Tavistock Show of 1899, Miriam won a Second Prize for, “jumping”. She was inspected into the Polo Pony Stud Book in 1900, under, “Rule 2,” (promulgated in Volume 6 of the Polo Pony Society, page 49), and given the Mare number 991.

The Conditions of Entry for Mares, included :-
Rule 1. Height – The limit for the height of Foundation Mares shall be 14.2 hands, and all heights and markings shall be registered with entry. Miriam was 14.1 1/2.
Rule 2. Inspection – Mares under this rule must be inspected and passed by a Member of the Council, or by two Members of the Society deputed by the Council. . . . . .

On the 19th May, 1902, at the Tavistock and District Agricultural Association, Miriam was entered in a class for, “Best Pony Brood Mare,” (calculated to breed a Polo Pony, not exceeding 14.2, in foal, and due to foal before Midsummer, or with foal at foot.) She won Third Prize.
Miriam was also entered in the class for Brood Mares, with her stable companion Dream. She won the, “Third Prize” ahead of Dream who was Commended, Miriam was now seventeen years old.

Her bay colt of 1901 was by Pat, a Polo Pony Stallion, (Number 97), who was bred and owned by, Ambrose Gorle, of Metherell Tower, Lew Down, North Devon.

Produce :
1901 – bay colt, (born in May) by Pat 97
1902 – ?

Notes:
Mate’s County Series, Devonshire, Sporting Memories –
The Tetcott Hounds, (Masters Messrs. Gerald Halifax and C.H. Calmady-Hamlyn)

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