Stallion
Colour: Brown, white spot
Breed: Dartmoor
Type: Unknown
Foaled: 1897
Height: 12.1hh 1/2 inch
Sire: Bold Venture
Dam: Star
LITTLE STAR Volume 8 (1903-1904) of The Polo and Riding Pony Society
LITTLE STAR 315, brown, white spot on heel. Foundation Stallion 1 of the Dartmoor Breed,
Foaled 1897 Height 12 1 ½
Breeder, Delia Doidge, Lamerton Villa, Nr. Tavistock
Sire: Bold Venture brown, 13-0 Dartmoor pony
Dam: Star, black 12-1 ½ Dartmoor Pony
He was the sire of Lucky Star II.
Notes:
Queenie, dark bay 12-3
Owner, Moses Bawden, Tamar View, Tavistock
Sire, Dartmoor pony, dark bay 13-1
Dam, Topsy, grey, 12-2
Produce:
Lucky Star II and Diana II
Topsy, grey 12-2
Sire: Katerfelto
Dam: Dot, grey, 12-2 by Hereford GSB, dark bay 13-0
Granddam to Lucky Star II and Diana II
Katerfelto (Legendary)
Quoted from an article in the The Field, dated September 29, 1945 by M.G.S. Best.
…..“You often hear the story of Katerfelto told on Exmoor. By many of the folk he is regarded as a legend, and nothing more, but others think there may be something in it, much the same as they will reply if you ask about the Doones. According to Whyte Melville, who wrote his novel around the horse, Katerfelto was a grey stallion, a perfect little horse, the property of the Sir Thomas Acland of that day, which ran free on the moor. Many were the offers for him, but his owner refused to sell, and he was finally lent to a neighbour who, after keeping him for some time, told Sir Thomas he was dead. But this apparently was not the case, and the little horse sired a numerous stock on the moor. There are very few grey ponies on the moor nowadays. Bay, brown, or dun, each with a mealy nose or muzzle, are those generally seen; but they may also be black or grey, and must have no white markings. The true Exmoor also boasts a wide forehead, short head, small pointed ears, wide nostrils, and large eyes, full and dark, very like those of an Arab.” ……
Katerfelto, bay, 13-2 (Dartmoor pony, before 1895)
Sire of dam of 770 Brown Kitty, (who was 792 Katerine, brown, 13-2, by Katerfelto (Dartmoor))
owned by The Directors of Convict Prisons ……
Sire of the granddam, of 3725 Ginger II who was a black Dartmoor Pony, 13-1 hand high, and
owned by Stephen Crocker, Plume of Feathers, Princetown, Devon.
And POSSIBLY the sire of Topsy grey, the granddam of 2259 Lucky Star II and 2260 Diana II, who were both bred by Moses Bawden, Tamar View, Tavistock
Katerfelto (brown Exmoor) who won First Prize at the Royal Show in Plymouth 1902-03
Sire of 1244 Zara (piebald), Foaled 1888 (Owned and bred by Miss Standish, Marwell Manor, Eastleigh, Hants.
Katerfelto II 1001 (Dartmoor pony)
Foaled 1920 (sire, Yorkshire Hussar)
Owned and bred by The Countess of Mount Edgecume