This is a mare I've found out a lot about, except her registered name! She was born in 1982 and is a daughter of the solid chestnut stallion Simon. Deb Noll snapped a picture of her as a foal and with her sire. The first photo is her in 1989, her buckskin foal by Gunner's Moon is on her other side. Her brand was messed up somehow so her identification number brand is unreadable. Her foals from at least 2002-2004 were sold under the identification number 90. The real 90 was a different mare who had died by then (her brand was readable!) and her name was Teague or Teagie. Kelly Lidard called this mare "the false Teague". For lack of options I call her Teague and the real #90 Teagie. Such are the joys of researching old ponies.

Teague was a chestnut so she would have tested as e/e, as all chestnuts do. She received one copy of chestnut from her chestnut sire and another copy from her unknown dam.https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

The most interesting part of Teague was that she definitely appears to have had splashed white. She only had a round star, tiny snip, and two small hind socks. That's pretty common for ponies that only have one copy of splash. Two of her foals, 1988's Once Upon a Time and 2003's Aladdin, had blue eyes. The second photo is of her and Aladdin. Here's an article about her 1988 foal: https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/last-ride-chincoteague-pony-legend (no she's not a descendant of Watch Eyes). Teague's tobiano foals looked to have more than just tobiano, more white on them than you'd expect. Splashed white would have come from her dam since her sire had no white at all. Simon had several mares that could have had splash, including Surfer Dude's dam Gremlin. Until we find out more info on Teague it remains a possibility that she was a half sister to Surfer Dude.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mixedpinto.html 

Courtney's Island Dove is one of the 1/4 Arabian mares in the current herd. Her dam was the chestnut tobiano half Arabian Courtney's Boy and her dam was the black tobiano Salt and Pepper. She hasn't had any foals kept for the herd.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html

She's a chestnut and 7 of her foals have been chestnut too. She's had two bays and a buckskin, but those were also the color of the sires so there's not a way to tell if she carries agouti or how many copies.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

Courtney's Island Dove is a very flashy tobiano pinto. She's had several non pinto foals so that tells us that she only has one copy of tobiano.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

She has some roaning to her coat. That's tobiano roaning and it's thought to be something that tobiano does sometimes, rather than a separate inheritance.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/roaning.html

Her solid bay daughter with Ajax, Assateague's Spirited Lady, has been color tested and she has the white patterns White 34, White 35, Eden White 2, and Eden White 3. It's highly likely that some of those were inherited from Courtney's Island Dove. The amount of white she has plus the jagged look to her pinto markings are an indication that she has something other than tobiano.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white34.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white35.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/eden-white.html

Voodoo was the most famous stallion of the 1960's and early 1970's. He appears in numerous publications and postcards. He can even be spotted in a couple scenes in the Misty movie. For many years he had the largest herd on Assateague. Dr. Ronald Keiper found his body in spring 1977. The first photo by National Geographic is the most famous of him. The second was taken by Ronald Keiper.

Voodoo was a black and may have carried recessive chestnut. The one identified mare thought to be his daughter was a chestnut. He had many foals and likely has plenty of descendants in the current herd, but we can't trace them at this time.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/black.html

He was a very flashy pinto as his photos show. Voodoo was a tobiano and definitely had another pinto pattern. That big wide blaze, the large amount of white he had, and complicated look to his pinto pattern all speak to him having something other than tobiano.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mixedpinto.html

At 22 years old Pappy's Pony is one of the senior mares of the current Assateague herd. Her sire was the brown tobiano Witch Doctor and her dam was the flaxen chestnut Island Star. Her old identification number was B18 and her first several foals were sold at the auction under that number. Two of her foals have been kept for the herd, the short lived Kelly's Raven Moon and current herd member Barbara's Tasi.

Pappy is a solid bay which means she has black and agouti. Agouti tells her black to stay on her points. She has had 4 black foals over the years which tells us she only has one copy of agouti. If she had two she couldn't have had any black foals.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html

Her dam was a chestnut so Pappy carries recessive chestnut. If that wasn't known her 6 chestnut foals would have told us that. In order to get a chestnut foal both parents must be or carry chestnut.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

Pappy doesn't have any white markings so she visually doesn't show any signs of having a white pattern. One of her daughters with Surfer's Riptide has White 20 and is the only Chincoteague tested to have it thus far. W20 can sometimes be found on solid horses so perhaps it came from Pappy!
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white20.html

Gremlin is a matriarch of the current herd. She was born in 1979 and died in 2000. Her sire was the bay pinto half Arabian Gordo and her dam was an unnamed dark chestnut who currently has the nickname of Gremlin's Mom. Gremlin's 1992 foal was Surfer Dude and he was his mother's son when it came to color.

She was a chestnut and would have tested as e/e. Gremlin was in the herd of the solid chestnut Simon for about 10 years so all of their foals were guaranteed to be chestnut. There's not enough info to guess her agouti status since only one of her known foals wasn't a chestnut. Surfer Dude's sire Broken Jaw was a bay, but he and their other two foals were also chestnut. Her last foal, born in 1999, was black.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

Gremlin is the source of splashed white 1 in the Surfer Dude/Riptide family. There's obviously no color tests for these ponies but we can figure some things out using observation. Her expression of splashed white was a stripe and two socks, but she had several flashy foals with solid colored stallions. Splashed white came from her sire Gordo. He had other descendants who also seemed to have it. Multiple descendants of Gremlin have tested to have splashed white 1.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html

Two other things that make her descendants well known also appear to have come from Gremlin. The dark sooty chestnut she inherited from her dam was also passed down to her stallion son. She wasn't as dramatic of a blonde as her son and his son, but she was flaxen too. Neither sooty or flaxen is testable but we can see how it's genetic in this family.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/sooty.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/flaxen.html

Shadey Hills Sunshine is a 2022 palomino tobiano daughter of chestnut tobiano Don Leonard Stud II and palomino tobiano Little Miss Sunshine. Both of her parents still live on Assateague. Thanks to Deb Shade for sharing her results!

Sunshine is a palomino which is a chestnut with one copy of the cream dilution. Her test reflected that with e/e (red) and CR/n (cream). 
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/palomino.html

She has one copy of agouti. It's hidden since she doesn't have any black. Looking at her pedigree it likely came from her sire as he has sired bays out of blacks, and his dam was a bay.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html

Both of her parents are tobiano pintos and so is she. Sunshine only inherited it from one parent as she has one copy.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

Sunshine's primitive markings test showed nd1/nd2. That means she could or could not have primitive markings.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings.html

Effie's Papa Bear, better known as Hoppy, is a 2007 solid bay stallion on Assateague. He's sired by the bay tobiano half Arabian Sockett to Me and his bay dam Mermaid was an Assateague born full Mustang. So he's half Mustang and 1/4 Arabian, something I find pretty cool! Arabian and Mustang are the two breeds that have been most often crossed into the Chincoteague Pony. I was at Pony Penning the year he was born and he was one of a group of colts that were the first boys kept for the herd in 11 years.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mustang.html

As a bay Hoppy has black and agouti. Agouti tells his black to stay on his legs and mane/tail. It appears that he's homozygous for agouti. I think this because he's sired many foals but no black foals. With as many foals as he's sired he should have by now if he didn't have two copies of agouti. A black pony can't have agouti. Both of his parents passed a copy of agouti on to him, and now he passes a copy on to all of his foals.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html

Hoppy has sired several chestnut foals so that means he has a copy of recessive chestnut. Both of his parents carried recessive chestnut so it could have come from either of them. His sire's sire was a chestnut and his dam produced a couple of chestnut foals so that's how we know they had it.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

His sire was a tobiano pinto but Hoppy didn't inherit it. Tobiano is one where you either have it or you don't. Any tobiano foals Hoppy has sired the tobiano has come from the foal's dam.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

Mayflower Maiden was born sometime around 1980. The first photo by Deb Noll is from 1982.  She can be distinguished from other palominos by her star. Her identification number was A2 or A02 and she may have also been called Mayflower Madame. Her parents are unknown. She has no known descendants in the current herd, but she might have some that are unknown considering her long life. She died in 2003. Her last foal is with her in the 2002 photo by Kelly Lidard. That filly was sired by Miracle Man and is the maternal granddam of Misty's Double Platinum, aka Winter, who briefly lived on Assateague.

Mayflower Maiden was a palomino so at least one of her parents had to have had the cream dilution. A palomino is a chestnut with the cream dilution. She would have passed cream along to statistically 50% of her foals. And she would have passed chestnut on to all of them. Two of her known foals were chestnut. Her last foal was a buckskin tobiano sired by a bay tobiano so she passed her cream on to her, along with chestnut recessively.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/palomino.html

She was on the lighter colored end of palominos. This difference in color shade likely has a genetic component. It's something that's currently being studied.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/colorshade.html

Surfer Dude's Gidget is a living matriarch of the current herd. She was born March 2002 and her parents were the chesnuts Surfer Dude and Virginia Belle. She's a half sister to Surf Queen, the dam of Surfer's Riptide. Gidget's had two daughters, a son, three granddaughters, and one grandson kept for the herd. She's one of the ponies I felt like I've known all her life.

Gidget is a chestnut like both of her parents.The foal of two chestnuts can only be chestnut. All of her foals are chestnut because the sires were chestnut too.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html.

Like her sire she has splashed white 1. Her blaze and socks is Gidget's expression of it. She's had multiple flashy "splashy" looking foals and some with blue eyes.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html

Gidget is sooty like her sire and many of her siblings. She tends on the darker sootier side for her family. Her mane and tail often have black hairs. The color shifts with age and with the seasons as the two pictures show.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/sooty.html

Also like much of her family Gidget is flaxen. She's not as blonde as her half brother/nephew Surfer's Riptide. The color changes through the seasons. And it's changed as she's aged. Her mane and not her tail is usually flaxen in her summer coat. And her tail was more flaxen when she was younger.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/flaxen.html