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I featured this mare's last buyback Misty Mills so I decided to keep this week's historial pony post in the family. This mare was best known as Goose because of a pinto marking that looked like a goose taking flight. Her registered names were Twirling Lace and Sweet Mischief. She was listed as Sweet Mischief on the papers of her foals from the old Chincoteague Pony Association for years and it changed to Twirling Lace in 2005. She was born in 1985 and her parents are unknown. Goose was famous for being able to walk across the cattle guard. Her foals kept for the herd were Merry Teapot's High Bid in 1991, Slash of White in 1998, and the aforementioned Misty Mills in 2006. Her son Calico Kid was an off island island with many offspring. Goose was retired to Texas in 2008 and died in 2021. Goose was a bay and carried recessive chestnut. Two of her buybacks, Slash of White and Misty Mills were chestnut. Goose appeared to be homozygous for the bay causing agoui because she never produced a black foal, just chestnuts and bays. All this tells us that both of her parents had agouti and at least one parent was or carried chestnut. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html Goose was a tobiano pinto and had one copy of tobiano. We can figure this out because several of her foals weren't pinto. I think it's possible she had another pinto pattern with that big blaze she had. Several of the newer discovered white patterns tend to add to existing white or add white marking, rather than big pinto markings. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html  
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Millennium Midnight, better known as Oreo, was born in 2000. She was born on the Leonard farm but went through the auction that year. Her sire was the bay tobiano Miracle Man. The dam listed on her papers from the old Chincoteague Pony Association was Chantilly Lace. However, that's either not her dam or Chantilly Lace isn't who we thought she was. More on this later. Oreo spent most of her life as a broodmare and spent many summers at the Chincoteague Pony Centre. Here's a video I took in 2010 at the Centre: https://youtu.be/HZ2H8klfrv0 From 2018 to 2020 she lived on Assateague having been loaned to the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company. Here's another video of her from this July in her retirement: https://youtu.be/Nv7ykK5u6J0 Oreo is a bay like her sire. Her test revealed she has two copies of black and agouti. This means her foals could only be bay and indeed they all were. Back to the question about her dam, the mare everyone thinks was Chantilly Lace was a chestnut. A chestnut can have a copy of agouti but can't have a copy of black. So that mare can't be Oreo's dam, since she has two copies of black and had to have inherited a copy from each parent. Her white stripe "cream in the middle" gave Oreo her nickname. That white came from tobiano pinto of which she has one copy. She had a solid colored foal so it wasn't a surprise at her test result showing one copy. Oreo doesn't have a dorsal stripe but she has one copy of non-dun1, aka nd1, which can cause ponies to have primitive markings like dorsal stripes. She has one copy of Eden White 3, one of the more recently discovered white patterns. This is probably why she has a star and a snip. Still finding out what all EDXW3 can do. I don't know which parent EDXW3 came from but I've been eyeballing Miracle Man for forever at possibly having had something other than just tobiano. Perhaps this was it! Millennium Midnight's genetic makeup: A/A, E/E, nd1/nd2, TO/n, EDXW3/n   Misty Mills was born in 2006. Her sire was the half Arabian chestnut tobiano Courtney's Boy and she looks a good bit like him. She's the last foal of the prolific bay tobiano mare Goose, registered name Sweet Mischief and/or Twirling Lace (it's complicated). She's a half sister to the late Merry Teapot's High Bid, Slash of White, and off island stallion Calico Kid. None of her foals have been kept for the herd on Assateague. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html Misty Mills is a bright red chestnut, much like her sire. Her dam was bay but she carried chestnut recessively and provided the other copy of red. Chestnuts can have some white hairs mixed very lightly into their coat. It's just something that happens sometimes and she has this. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html I have no idea if Misty Mills carries the bay causing agouti. Her bay dam could have passed it to her. Her sire could have also as he appeared to carry it based on his foals. All but one of Misty Mills's foals have been sired by a chestnut (the only outlier a bay by a bay) so without testing I don't have any info to go on. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Both of Misty Mills's parents were tobiano pinto and she inherited one copy from one of them. She's had five solid colored foals and that tells us she is heterozygous for tobiano. I think she has another white pattern and I think her sire did too, but no way to tell for sure without testing. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html Misty Mills's probable genetic makeup: e/e, TO/n   Living Legend was born in 1997 and died in 2013. She was by the bay tobiano Hurricane and out of the dark buckskin Noble Sea Bird. Her old identification number was A70. Living Legend had two offspring kept as buybacks the palomino tobiano Whisper of Living Legend in 2000 and her last foal the buckskin Alice's Sandcastle in 2012. Her 2004 palomino tobiano son Hurricane Charley's Legacy was a stallion for years and has over a dozen offspring, including Angel's Stormy Drizzle who lives at Beebe Ranch. I remember her well and it's a bit odd to think she's now considered historical, but of course she is. Living Legend was black and she carried recessive chestnut. She had six palomino foals and that tells us she definitely had chestnut! https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/black.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html She was a bit of an odd looking black sometimes because she also carried cream, called a smoky black. If you look at my pictures she looks a bit of a pewter look to her black coat. Cream only affects red pigments so it doesn't have much to do on smoky blacks. None of her foals were sired by cream dilute stallions yet the majority of her foals, including her two buybacks, were cream dilutes. No denying she was a smoky black with that many dilute foals! https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/smokyblack.html Living Legend was a tobiano pinto and only had one copy which was inherited from her sire Hurricane. She has some tobiano roaning on her left side and a couple cat tracks on her right. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html While picking out pictures for this post I noticed she also had a bit of puzzle coat. It's the velvet looking spot on her neck in the picture of her left side. It's thought to be related to metabolic issues. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/puzzle-coat.html   |
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