Mare
Colour: Bay, white face
Breed: Thoroughbred
Type: Unknown
Foaled: 1892
Height: 14.1 hands 3/4 inch

Sire: Southampton
Dam: Gazelle

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504 SERF BELLE (late Gaily) GSB (Vol.17 p.228) bay filly Foaled 1892. Bred by Mr. F.J. Grainger, Thornholm, Burton Agnes, Hull.

Purchased by Mr J. Barker, later Sir John Barker, M.P. and Sir John Barker, Bart, Serf Belle won many races and was admitted into the Polo Pony Stud book under Rule 5 (See rule 5. page 49). Described as 14 1 3/4 hands high, (bay, white face), she was entered from 1899 in “Brood Mare Classes”.

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Prizes:

1896:
– 2nd Hurlingham
– 1st Sutton and Buxton
– 1897 Reserve R.A.S.E. at Manchester
– 1898 2nd Peterborough
– 1st and Gold Medal Polo Pony Society, Yorkshire
– 2nd Darlington
– 1899 1st and Gold Medal Polo Pony Society, Peterborough
– 2nd Crystal Palace and Waltham Cross

1900:
– Reserve Polo Pony Society, London Show
– 3rd R.A.S.E. at York

At the 1901 London Show of the Polo Pony Society :-
– Class 23: Brood Mares above 13 hands 2 inches high and not exceeding 14 hands 2 inches high, with foal at foot or to foal in 1901 – 18 Entries
– Second Prize £7 Reserve for Gold Medal for best Brood Mare in Classes 23 and 24

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Produce:
1902 – bay colt, by Rosewater
1903 – bay filly, Bella Rose (or Rose Belle) by Rosewater
1904 – ? by a Polo Pony
1905 – ? by a Polo Pony
1906 – brown filly, Stortford Belle by Mark For’ard
1907 – bay filly, Forward Belle by Right For’ard
1908 – bay colt, Serfage by Right For’ard
1909 – bay colt, by Right For’ard
1910 – barren to Othrae
1911 – chestnut colt, (broke it’s neck) by Othrae
1912 – barren to Othrae
1913 – chestnut filly, Arthur’s Belle by Arthur D
1914 – filly, Beauty Face, bred by Sir John Barker

Notes:
3389 Beauty Face was dam of Wine Merchant and Well Met

3390 Arthur’s Belle was dam of Asteroidel, Wine Measure, Belle Cerise, Arthur’s Love and
Mabella.

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