Misty III is the current heir to the name of Misty. She's a granddaughter of Misty II and a great great granddaughter of Misty. Her sire is the most recent featured tested pony, the chestnut tobiano Misty II's Henry. Misty's dam was the buckskin Little Beebe, born in 1991. She lives at Kerkaken Acres with her sire and many cousins. My pony Misty's Hurricane Izzy is her older half sister.

Palominos like Misty III are chestnuts with one copy of the cream dilution. She tested as e/e for chestnut and CR/n for one copy of cream. Her copy of cream came from her buckskin dam. Chestnut had to have come from both parents. Her sire is chestnut and her dam carried chestnut recessively.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/palomino.html

Misty tested as having two copies of agouti, which creates bays. Since she doesn't have any black we can't see the presence of agouti without testing. Her sire is also homozygous for agouti so she received a copy from him. Her dam is a buckskin (bay with cream) so she got the second copy from her.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html

Her sire Henry has two copies of their pinto pattern tobiano and her dam was a solid buckskin. Misty had no choice but to inherit one copy of tobiano. Which her test also showed as TO/n.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

Misty tested for primitive markings as nd1/nd2. Ponies that test like this might or might not have primitive markings. It appears that she doesn't, but she also has so much white it's hard to tell!
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings.html

Tiger Lily, nicknamed Waterbaby, is one of the oldest mares on Assateague as she was born in September 2002. Her sire was the chestnut tobiano Maryland transfer Cherokee Chief and her dam the bay tobiano Voyager. The late Suzy's Sweetheart was her full sister and my friend Devin owns her full sister from 2000. Her dam was nicknamed Swim Mare because several of Voyager's foals were the first foal ashore and raffled as the Neptune foal. That's why Kelly Lidard nicknamed her Waterbaby when her name was unknown.
Maryland transfers: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/assateague-horses.html

Tiger Lily is a chestnut which means she has two copies of chestnut or red. Chestnuts require two copies of red in order to be that color because it's recessive. Her sire was chestnut but her dam's pedigree is unknown so we don't know where her bay dam got her copy of chestnut. Tiger Lily passes one copy of red on to all her foals regardless of what color they are.
Chestnut: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

She's a tobiano pinto like both of her parents but her foals tell us she inherited one copy of tobiano. Of her 17 foals she's produced three solids. If she had two copies of tobiano then all of her foals would have been tobiano pintos. Statistically her foals get her tobiano 50% of the time. But all of the stallions she's had foals with were also tobiano and their contribution gives the appearance of skewing the statistic.
Tobiano: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html
The edges of her pinto markings have a roany outline to them. This is called mapping.
Mapping: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mapping.html

Waterbaby has some non-mapping roaning to her coat. Tobiano pintos often have roaning to their coat. It's currently thought to be something that tobiano does occasionally and not a separate inheritance.

Not related to color, but I find it interesting that only 4 of Tiger Lily's foals have been fillies. She's produced 13 colts out of 17 foals!

Mappy is one of the most recognizable historical ponies. She was born in the mid to late 1970s and her parents are unknown. The black and white photo is from the 1978 book Island of Wild Horses by Jack Denton Scott. Her identification number was #50 and her registered name appears to have been Fiddle Faddle. Mappy was retired to Stan White's farm in Florida where she died in 1999. My dear friend Kathy O'Dette was one of her biggest fans and owned her 1984 colt Stormy. The second photo is one of Kathy's from 1991. Kathy got to meet Mappy in her retirement at the invitation of Mr. White in 1998. The last photo is one Kathy took of an elderly but still feisty Mappy in Florida.

Mappy was obviously a black. She had several chestnut foals so that means she carried recessive chestnut. So she would have tested as E/e.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/black.html

She was a tobiano pinto and her most defining feature was her big cat tracks. Cat tracks are characteristic of tobiano pinto and are more common on homozygous tobianos. Homozygous tobianos have two copies of tobiano pinto and all of their foals are tobiano also. All of Mappy's foals I've seen pictures of were tobiano so it seems that she was homozygous.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/cattracks.html

Mappy's tobiano pinto appeared to have been affected by white suppression. You can really see it on her right side where she has a big roany C marking. It's mismatched with the big white marking on her left side like something is keeping the white away. Several of her foals were minimal pintos also.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/minimaltobiano.html

Thanks to Kathy's pictures we can track Mappy for a large portion of her life and it doesn't appear that any of her foals were kept for the herd. Mappy was in the herd of the chestnut stallion Simon for most of her life. Some of her fellow herdmates were the previously featured historical pony Paint the Wind and Surfer Dude's dam Gremlin. After Simon died she and most of Simon's mares ended up in the herd of Broken Jaw. I hold out some hope that one of her foals we don't know of was kept for the herd.