Colt
Colour: Chestnut
Breed: Unknown
Type: Polo and riding pony  (Thoroughbred x Dartmoor cross)
Foaled: 1918
Height: Unknown

Sire: Arthur’s Pride
Dam: 3120 Cup Moss

STIRRUP CUP DARTMOOR CROSS

GELDING

STIRRUP CUP
sire : Arthur’s Pride (GSB) NPS stallion 861
dam: 3120 Cup Moss (Registered as Dartmoor Pony)

London Show 1923
Class 27 – Mares or Geldings (of Riding type and of any age) by a Polo-bred, Arab or Thoroughbred Stallion (entered in the Stud Book of its Breed), out of a Mountain or Moorland Mare entered in one of the Mountain or Moorland Sections of The National Pony Stud Book. – 2 Entries
STIRRUP CUP, chestnut gelding 5 years old
Sire – Arthur’s Pride 861
Dam – 3120 Cup Moss, by Lord Polo 135
Exhibitor and Breeder – Mrs J. Oscar Muntz …..

Stirrup Cup would have been at Foxhams from 1918 to 1923 when he was probably sold.
Lord Polo, (who was by the thoroughbred Rosewater) was allowed to run on the moor to improve the breed.
Cup Moss was one of his daughters, owned originally by G.H. Horrell and later by Mrs J. Oscar Muntz.
It is interesting to note that Mrs. Muntz considered, “the first and second cross,” produced the perfect child’s riding pony.
Since Stirrup Cup is “a first cross,” I think he was most likely to have been trained and sold as a child’s riding pony. He was foaled in 1918 and would probably have been at Foxhams until at least 1922.

Notes:
A ‘parting cup’ given to guests on leaving, when their feet were in the stirrups.