Mare
Colour: Chestnut
Breed: Half-bred
Type: Polo and riding pony
Foaled: 1919
Height: 15 hands
Sire:
Dam:
NONE-SO-PRETTY Supplement 1919 (Volume 16 & 17 of The National Pony Society)
FILLIES
NONE-SO-PRETTY Mrs J. Oscar Muntz ……..
Chestnut, white hind fetlocks. Foaled 1919 Height 12.3
Breeder, Mrs J. Oscar Muntz ……..
Sire: Arthur’s Pride 861, chestnut, 15.0
Dam: 2872 Bush Girl, chestnut, 14.2, by The Squire (Hunter 35)
G. dam, Wild Girl (registered at Hurlingham in 1898, No. 950) brought from South Africa; bred in Queensland out of a well-bred mare by an imported thoroughbred horse.
Supplement 1921 Volumes 16 & 17 of The National Pony Society (1919,20,21)
NONE-SO-PRETTY (Supp. 1919) Mrs J. Oscar Muntz ……..
Chestnut, Foaled 1919 Height 14.1
Breeder, Mrs J. Oscar Muntz ……..
Sire: Arthur’s Pride 861, chestnut, 15.0
Dam: 2872 Bush Girl, chestnut, 14.2, by The Squire
Prizes
1921 First Devon County
First Brentor and Lydford
Volume 18 of The National Pony Society (1922, 1923, and 1924)
Polo and Riding Pony Mares 1924
4706 NONE-SO-PRETTY (Supp. 1919-1921).
Chestnut, Foaled 1919 Height 15.0 Measured December 4th 1923
Owner and Breeder, Mrs J. Oscar Muntz ……..
Sire: Arthur’s Pride 861, chestnut, 15.0
Dam: 2872 Bush Girl, chestnut, 14.2, by The Squire
Prizes
1921 First Devon County 1922 First Brentor and Lydford
First Brentor and Lydford 1923 Second Plympton
First Okehampton Third Okehampton
To slightly confuse the available information, two entries are found in Volume 20 of The National Pony Stud Book as follows :-
– HURLINGHAM CLUB SHOW June 13th, 1930
MIDDLE-WEIGHT POLO PONIES, suitable for Players riding 12 stone 7 lbs and upwards, but not up to 14 stone 18 Entries
First None So Pretty Owned by S. Sandford
– RANELAGH CLUB SHOW June 11th 1930
POLO PONIES (Medium Weight) to carry 11 stone 7lbs to 14 stone 11 Entries
Third None So Pretty Owned by S. Sandford
From an article in Country Life (August 31st 1935)
….. None-So-Pretty …. had a remarkable career. She won as a hack and polo pony no fewer than forty first prizes, and on a later occasion, 1927, brought further distinction to Foxhams by winning first, champion gold cup and challenge cup, (supreme champion as a hack), at Richmond, first at Olympia, Ranelagh and other shows. She finished her career in this country on being exported to Egypt where she was renamed Sugar Candy.
None-So-Pretty was at Foxhams for eight years and it is said Mrs Muntz rode her at Olympia, (where she won in 1927).
Sadly as yet, I do not have corroborating evidence for all this but have no reason to question any point except the one, that in 1927 she was bought by King Farouk.
Note:
None-so-Pretty, a little red-and-white flower that grew on bombsites also known as London Pride.
Perhaps None-so-Pretty was sold to Prince Feisul of Arabia, Patron of the Arab Horse Society
in 1919 and not King Farouk as suggested.