Mare
Colour: Bay
Breed: Unknown
Type: Polo pony
Foaled: 1901
Height: 14.2 hands

Sire: Unknown
Dam: Unknown

PEACH was a bay mare, 14.2 hands high, foaled in 1901 and bred in Ireland, she was a polo pony, bought by Miss Imogen Mary Collier in 1911.

Peach was played by Mr. E.B. Sheppard for five seasons at Hurlingham, Ranelagh and Roehampton, (from The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes page 357 “. . . Amongst civilian players who have lately come to the front must be noted the names of the Earl of Shrewsbury, Mr G.A. Miller, Mr W.S. Buckmaster, Messrs T.B. and W.J. Drybrough, E.B. Sheppard, E.T. Hohler, G.H. Pilkington and Roylance Court.”), and figured in the Social Club, the Champion, the Junior Champion, the Public School, Rugby, and many other tournaments. She was on the ground to play for the America Cup.

No pedigree for Peach is mentioned. She was entered in the Polo and Riding Pony Stud Book, Volume 12, (1911-1912) in 1912, as mare number 2319.
At Plymouth in the Devon County Agricultural Show of 1912, in a class for brood mares not exceeding twelve and a half hands, Peach won second prize, and The Polo and Riding Pony Society’s, “Silver Medal for Brood Mares.” She also won prizes at Okehampton, and Brentor and Lydford.

The following year, at Devon County Agricultural Show, this time held in Barnstable, (May 21st to 23rd), Peach won second prize, and in the same class and at Totnes, in 1914, she won first prize and a further Silver Medal.

Her produce were:-
1912 – Stolen Fruit, by Explorer GSB
1913 – Nectarine, by Cruickshanks GSB
1914 – Unknown foal

Notes:
The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes edited by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G. assisted by Alfred E.T. Watson – Riding and Polo 1899