PUNCHINELLO
Stallion
Colour: Bay with black points
Breed: Unknown
Foaled: 1899
Type: Polo-bred
Height: 13.2 hands

Sire: The Bey
Dam: 708 Grey Leg

 

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PUNCHINELLO (late POLO KING) bay colt, with black points, foaled in 1899 and bred by A. L. Goodson, of Heathfield, Knutsford, Cheshire. He was registered as Polo King in the Supplement to Volume 7 (1901-1902) and re-entered as Punchinello by Captain Joseph Oscar Muntz in Volume 8 of the Polo and Riding Pony Stud Book (1903-1904). He was given the stallion number 302 and was 13.2 hands high when measured on December 5th, 1903.
Punchinello’s dam Grey Leg was registered in Volume 5 of the Polo Pony Society (1898-1899), as a Polo Pony Mare, she was bay, 13.3 hands high, and given the number 708.
At the London Show of The Polo and Riding Pony Society, (1902), in Class 21 for stallions not exceeding 13.2, Sir Richard D. Green-Price, Baronet, says “. . . . Polo King, only three years old, is highly promising and a beautiful mover. The little Prince of Wales has few compeers at his inches 12.3. There was not a bad pony in the class.”
Later at The Princetown Pony Races, Miss Imogen Collier was to describe Punchinello as, “a very lovely little pony.”

In 1903, at the London Show in the class for stallions not exceeding 13.2 hands high, the first three stallions retained their 1902 positions, (Lord Polo, Hermit and Punchinello).

Other placings in the 1903 shows were:-
Reserve, Devon County
Reserve, Bath and West and Southern Counties Show, May 27th -1st June, Pony Stallion not exceeding 13.2 hands high suitable to get Polo or Riding Ponies . . .)
Second and Silver Medal, Okehampton.
In 1904 there was a second prize at Devon County,
First at Brentor and Lydford, (Stallions under 14.0), and Champion Silver Cup for best Pony Stallion.
At the 1906 London Show of the Polo and Riding Pony Society, (Stallions not exceeding 13.2 hands high. Three years old and upwards . . . . ), Punchinello now 7 years old won third prize.

He was sire of :-
Punchenella foaled in 1909
and of Merry Andrew, who won at Devon County in 1910

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THE BEY

Stallion
Colour: Bay, black points
Breed: Arab
Foaled: 1886
Type: Polo pony
Height: 14 hands 1/2 inch

His sire, The Bey was bred in Arabia, an Arab of the Tahowi Breed, bay, black points, and foaled in 1886. In 1892 he was winner of a, “One Mile Steeplechase,” against English ponies at Woolwich. Purchased from Captain C. Gordon Mackenzie, of Foxton Grange, Market Harborough, he was a very good Polo Pony, (played for winning team, County Cup, Hurlingham 1893 and in Regimental Tournament 1894). Now owned by G. Norris Midwood, of The Hut, Tabley, Knutsford, Cheshire, The Bey was entered in the Polo Pony Society Stud Book Volume 3, (1895-1896) as stallion 108. He was 14.0 1/2, hands high and a photograph of him is to be found in Volume 3.

Some Prizes won by The Bey included:-
1894:
– 1st, Foreign Ponies, Hurlingham.
– Highly Commended in Stallion Class, (Foreign and English), Ranelagh.

1896:
– 3rd, Polo Pony Society’s Show Hurlingham, for Arab Stallions.
– 1st, Altricham Show, for Polo Pony Stallions.

1899:
– 1st and Silver Medal, Polo Pony Society, Liverpool Polo Club.
– 2nd, Royal Agricultural Society of England, at Maidstone.
– 2nd, Crystal Palace.
– 1st, Adlington.

1900:
– 2nd, Royal Agricultural Society of England at York.
– 1st and Gold Medal, Polo Pony Society, Altrincham.

1901:
– 2nd, Polo Pony Society, London Spring Show, Class 21 Eastern sires, including Arabs, Barbs and Foreign Ponies, 14 Entries. (An excellent entry being eight more stallions than last year. The class introduced many new sires to the show, which could not dispossess the two from their premier places . . , Mootrub, The Bey).
– 1st, Royal Agricultural Society of England at Cardiff.
– 2nd, Cheshire.
– 2nd, Altrincham Agricultural Society, September 26th, (Stallion Polo Pony, not exceeding 14.2 suitable for getting Riding ponies).

1902:
– 1st Reserve for Gold Medal and Cup for best Eastern Sire, Polo Pony Society, London Spring Show, (The Bey easily held his own, although the whole class was meritorious).
– 2nd, Royal Agricultural Society of England, at Carlisle, 5th-11th July, (Eastern Sires).
– 1st, Adlington.

1903:
– At the London Show of the Polo and Riding Pony Society, (Class 27 Eastern Sires, not exceeding 14.2 hands high, 10 entries). First
– Prize and Silver Cup offered by Colonel E.N. Henriques, for the Stallion selected as Reserve for Gold Challenge Cup and Reserve for the Society’s Gold Medal for the best stallion in Classes 25-28.
– 2nd, Royal Agricultural Society of England, June 23rd-27th, at Royal Park.
– 1st, Royal Lancashire Agricultural Show, at Manchester, July 30th – 3rd August, Polo Pony Stallion (Eastern Sire) . . .

The Bey now 17 years old, figured in statistics, (raised in 1907), revealing that by 1907 he had sired polo playing and prize winning ponies.

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