Stallion
Colour: Bay, white off hind fetlock
Breed: Arab-bred (Registered as Dartmoor stallion 1086)
Type: Polo and riding pony
Foaled: 1918
Height: 12.2 hands
Sire: Dwarka
Dam: Blackdown
‘The Leat’ Dartmoor Foundation Stallion 2
THE LEAT The Arab-bred Register 1921, (stallions page 25) a bay colt, with white off hind fetlock, foaled in 1918, he was bred and owned by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., York House, St. James’ Palace S.W.
His second owner was Miss M.S. Calmady-Hamlyn, J.P., of Pearroc Vean, Buckfast, Devon.
The Leat’s sire was Dwarka, an Original Arab bred in the desert, (Arab Horse Stud Book, Volume 1 page 39), and his dam was Blackdown, a black Dartmoor mare standing 13 hands high, foaled in 1907.
In 1920, at the London Show, of the National Pony Society, The Leat won the, “Special Prize” for the best Colt by an Arab Stallion, (entered in the Arab Horse Stud Book) and out of a Mountain or Moorland Mare entered in the Stud Book of her breed.
In the, “Introduction,” to The Arab-bred Register of 1921, it is said, ” . . . . we have several entries of ponies by Arab stallions from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales’s Stud at Princetown, where very valuable and successful experiments are taking place. . . . . .
At the London Show of 1921 in Class 23, (for Arab-bred colts, Fillies and Geldings), The Leat won third prize, and in 1922 Miss Calmady-Hamlyn entered him as a, “Dartmoor stallion,” in Volume 18 (1922-1924), of The National Pony Society. He measured exactly 12.2 hands and was given the stallion number 1086, in the Dartmoor Section.
The Arab-bred Register of 1925, (Containing the Entries of Arab-bred Stallions, Mares and Geldings) also contains, “The Supplementary List,” (The Supplementary List is for stock with 25 per cent of Arab Blood).
Miss Calmady-Hamlyn made four registrations, all sired by The Leat, they were :-
- Very Mere, brown, foaled in 1923,
dam :- The Young Visiter (National Pony Stud Book 3965 – Dartmoor Section), - Coraline, chestnut, diamond star, hind heel white, foaled in 1923 and later owned by Mrs J. Oscar Muntz.
dam :- Cora V by Amusement, out of an Exmoor mare,
(Cora V has won 350 Prizes in jumping, saddle harness, and Brood mare Classes. Amusement, a Roadster pony ; sire of many well-known jumpers.) - Juliet, (Juliet IV) brown, foaled in 1923 and bred by Edmund Northey,
dam :- Judy V (National Pony Stud Book, 4173 – Dartmoor Section) and - Sparklet, (Sparklet II), grey foaled in 1923,
dam:- Scintilla (National Pony Stud Book, 4253 – Dartmoor Section)
(an 11.3 hand grey pony, foaled in 1914 and of unknown breeding, who produced the grey Sparklet II in 1923 and Water Wagtail in 1924, both by The Leat).
The Leat was only at stud for three years before being gelded and sold as a child’s riding pony.
Notes:
Blackdown was registered as mare 3758 in the, “Dartmoor Section,” of the National Pony Society, (Volume 16 and 17 covering the years 1919, 20 and 21). She was bred by Mrs Crocker of the “Plume of Feathers,” Princetown out of an unnamed Dartmoor mare. Her sire was by, “the roadster,” Confident George (Hackney Stud Book 7022), and known as Kitty, she must have arrived at Tor Royal in about 1914 as she had foals for her new owner in 1915, a chestnut filly Ginger II by a Moor Stallion, in 1918 a bay colt The Leat and 1919 a brown colt named Whistman, both by Dwarka.
Dwarka 1892 (vol 1, The Arab Horse Society), bay with black points, star near hind pastern white.
A Kehailan, bred in the Arabian desert by the Anazeh imported into India, winner of events on the flat including the hurrican stakes, Rawal Pindi sping meeting 1898. Purchased from Mrs Atkinson who obtained him from Major General Raplh Broome, director of Remounts India.
Bred by the Anazeh Tribe, owner H. R. H, The Prince of Wales
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