Mare
Colour: Roan
Breed: Dartmoor
Type: Riding pony
Foaled: Unknown
Height: 12.2 hands
PINK MAY was a roan mare, with bay spots on her quarters, and a pink muzzle. A Dartmoor Pony of unknown age, she was bred by “Bulley”, of Milton Coombe, Yelverton South Devon her, “Dartmoor sire,” was bay and stood 12.2 hands high, so did her dam who was grey.
She was a, “brood mare,” at Foxhams from 1910 to 1913 before being entered by her owner Miss Imogen Mary Collier at Totnes, in the Devon County Show of 1914, (from 19th-21st May), where she won a, “first prize”.
At Cornwood on the 29th of July, Pink May won a class for, “Dartmoor Pony Brood Mares not exceeding thirteen hands,” and a Premium offered by the, National Pony Society.
She was measured in July, 1914 and entered as a mare in the “Dartmoor Section,” of the National Pony Society’s, Volume 13, (1913-1914, mare number 2624, height 12.2)
PINK MAY Volume 13 (1913-1914) and Volume 16 and 17(1919- 1920-1921) of The National Pony
Stud Book
DARTMOOR SECTION MARES
2624 Pink May
Pink May is definitely a Dartmoor pony, but at this time Miss Collier is more interested in breeding for Polo and Riding, than conserving Dartmoor ponies. One wonders if Pink May’s 1911, chestnut and white colt (skewbald, which is not accepted in Dartmoor colouring’s) would be classed as a Dartmoor, I think not. However her 1913 foal Sugar Plum, had a “white hind mark on quarters,” (later described as “spots”) was at the time classed as a Dartmoor as her sire was Admiral Togo, who was Dartmoor stallion.
Pink May was not said to have a brand, I think she was at Foxhams for a considerable time, possibly purchased in 1910 and being still there in 1920. (Pink May could then have been about sixteen, but this is not very old for a Dartmoor.)
Pink May’s recorded produce are as follows :-
1911 – chestnut and white (skewbald) colt
1912 – grey filly
1913 – chestnut filly Sugar Plum by stallion Admiral Togo
1914 – bay colt
(1914 Pink May was registered in National Pony Society Stud Book Volume 13)
1915 – bay colt
1916 – bay colt
1917 – bay colt
1918 – bay colt
1919 – chestnut filly Pink Perfection by Arthur’s Pride GSB