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SurfersRedHot&Blue, nicknamed Buddy, is a 2019 gelding born at Walnut Hill in Pennsylvania. Buddy has a lot of family on Assateague. His sire is WH Salt Marsh, a son of Archer's Gambit and Surfer Dude's Gidget. His sire also sired WH Surf and Sun, better known as Surfette, who lives on Assateague and is a full brother to SCC Surfer's Point Break, a young stallion on Assateague. Buddy's dam was WH Fire Ball, a daughter of Ken and Kimmee Sue, who is a full sister to Assateague mare Sue's Crown of Hope. Now that he's in Etalon's database he'll connect with all this family in ancestry family testing! Buddy lives at Kerkaken Acres and is an up and coming young riding pony. Here's a video of him strutting his stuff at Kerkaken's open house last July: https://youtu.be/oXVvbboC2oY His owner/trainer Kerra is riding him. SurfersRedHot&Blue test results: A/a, e/e, nd2/nd2, SW1/n, W35/n, EDXW3/n Buddy is a chestnut like both of his parents, shown on his test as e/e. He has one not visible copy of agouti, shown as A/a. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html He doesn't have any primitive markings like a dorsal stripe. Buddy's test showed he doesn't have the mutation for it as nd2/nd2. It does run in his family but he didn't get it. Splashed White 1 is on both sides of Buddy's family so it wasn't a surprise when the test revealed he had it. Me and some friends had speculated he might have two copies of SW1, but he only has one. Instead Buddy has both White 35 and Eden White 3! Having these two plus SW1 is likely why he's so flashy and has two blue eyes. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white35.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/eden-white.html Buddy is quite a dark chestnut, something common in his sire's family. There's every indication it's from sooty which adds black hairs and darkens a pony's coat. It isn't testable but appears to be inherited as we can see in the Surfer Dude family. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/sooty.html There was some question as to Buddy's damsire back when his dam was born, Ken vs Courtney's Boy. His ancestry test answered the question when a Ken x Kimmee Sue daughter showed up as a 2nd degree relation. So that told us that mare is his dam's full sister.  
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A Splash of Freckles is a 2011 mare by chestnut tobiano North Star and out of bay tobiano 15 Friends of Freckles. If you look at her pedigree yes, North Star is her sire and her dam’s sire. I've said that if you want to know the body type of pony her sire produced to look a her. She has had two daughters kept as buybacks, bay tobiano Good Golly Miss Molly and black tobiano CLG Magic Moment. A Splash of Freckles likely genetic makeup: E/e, A/a, TO/TO Splash of Freckles is a bay with one copy of agouti and one copy of chestnut. She's produced a couple black foals so she can only have one copy of agouti. Her sire is chestnut and even though she hasn't produced any chestnut foals she has to have one copy of recessive chestnut. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html She's a very flashy tobiano pinto. Both of her parents and all of her foals have been tobiano pintos. She very likely has two copies of tobiano, aka a homozygous tobiano. Splash of Freckles has a lot of cat tracks and tobiano roaning, both things that are more common on homozygous tobianos. Her name Splash of Freckles is because of all her cat tracks. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/cattracks.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/roaning.html I think it's possible Splash of Freckles has another white pattern. Her dam has a blue eye and one of her granddaughters does too. I don't have any testing data on her family so I don't know which one it could be. There's quite a few that Chincoteagues have that can cause blue eyes: Splashed White 1, White 34, White 35, Eden White 1, Eden White 2, and Eden White 3. I have hair from a niece I'll eventually test, maybe that will give me a hint! https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white34.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white35.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/eden-white.html   Island Madame was a little solid bay mare born in 1991. Her parents are unknown but it’s possible will be figured out at some point. For a while her nickname was Gypsy before her name was figured out. None of Island Madame’s foals have been found to have been kept for the herd, but records are spotty when she was young so you never know. Her ID number was 8B and was the number her foals were sold under at the auction. Her most distinctive feature was that big snip on her face. We got her on video at my first Pony Penning in 1995 and always remembered her with her big snip even many years before knowing her name. I was tickled to spot her as a yearling in my friend Kathy’s photos a couple years ago. Island Madame was a bay and appears to have had two copies of agouti. Out of 12 known foals she had 3 bays and one buckskin. No black foals which is an indicator she may not have had two copies of agouti as she would have had no choice to pass it on to all her foals. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html The rest of Island Madame’s foals were chestnuts. A chestnut foal has to have both parents with chestnut so as a bay she carried it recessively. This is one of the easier things to figure out using offspring if a pony’s parents are unknown. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html She was a pretty bright bay, at least in the summertime. She darkened up a good bit in the wintertime. Color shade and aren’t well understood yet but it’s something that we can definitely see. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/colorshade.html It’s very likely Island Madame had some kind of white/pinto pattern. I don’t think it’s splashed white based on her foals. Instead I think it was one of the more recently discovered patterns like the W group or the Eden White group. More and more ponies are testing to have one or more of these. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white20.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white34.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/white35.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/eden-white.html   Surf N Turf is a 2008 dark bay/brown mare born at Thousand Welcomes Farm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Both of her parents were born on Assateague. Her sire is dark/bay brown tobiano Chesapeake Powhattan’s Promise, 1998 son of Witch Doctor and Promise of Summer. Surf’s dam is chestnut Tidewater Millennium Surprise, 2000 daughter of Surfer Dude and Satin and Silk. Surf is a current and longtime member of the 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝑫𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒎. She’s currently the only non-Misty descendant on the team. Surf represented her uncle Surfer’s Riptide at Breyerfest 2025. Surf N Turf’s test results: A/a, E/e, nd2/nd2, TO/n, EDXW2 Surf has one copy of black and one copy of red, reflected as E/e. She has one copy of agouti which makes her a bay. You may have spotted that I called her a dark bay/brown. Brown is something that pretty much everyone thinks is different genetically from a bay, but it hasn’t been found yet. If you compare Surf with a bay they look quite a bit different. Interestingly her sire and his sire Witch Doctor were also a browns. Time will tell if the theorized difference in brown is found. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/brown.html She doesn’t have a dorsal stripe or any other primitive markings. That shows up on her test as non-dun2, or nd2/nd2. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings... Her sire was a tested homozygous for tobiano so he passed it on to her. Surf’s dam was solid so she didn’t have it to pass on, nether of her parents had tobiano either. So Surf is heterozygous for tobiano, TO/n. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html I’d wondered if Surf had something in addition to tobiano, she has a fairly big blaze and the edges of her pinto markings are jagged. And indeed she does! She has one copy of Eden White 2, or EDXW2/n. Surf is the first Chincoteague to test to be a combination of Tobiano Eden White 2. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/eden-white.html   A different type of historical pony for the first post of the new year! This is a filly sold at the 1996 auction. Her auction number is 87 which, at that time, matches to her dam’s number. Mare 87 was solid buckskin Misty Dawn. Best guess on the filly’s sire is Gunner’s Moon as Misty Dawn was in his herd for years. But no other evidence to back that up. Misty Dawn and Gunner's Moon were later the parents of Poco Latte PW. The fascinating thing about this filly is she was a solid bay, no white at all, with two blue eyes. My best guess for years was she had splashed white and some crazy white suppression that eliminated it. I still think she had white suppression, but now that we know Chincoteagues also have the Eden Whites, W34, and W35 that can cause blue eyes. Several ponies with these white patterns have been solid so now they're a real possibility for this filly.   Summer Breeze is a 2006 mare that was born after Pony Penning. She’s also known as Summer’s Gentle Sea Breeze and Cee Cee, for the C marking on her side. She was just kept for the herd and not sold as a buyback. Summer Breeze’s old ID number was B37 and her early foals were sold under that auction number. Summer Breeze’s parents are bay tobianos Miracle Man and Binky’s Breeze. She’s had one foal kept for the herd, bay tobiano Danny’s Girl Splash. Through her Summer Breeze has had two granddaughters kept. Summer Breeze’s likely genetic makeup: E/E, A/A, TO/n Summer Breeze is a dark bay which is a combination of black/extension and agouti. All of her 13 foals have been bay so it appears she has two copies of both. If she had recessive chestnut she would have had a chestnut foal, three of her foals were by chestnut stallion. Granted that’s not many foals so it’s a guess based on the information we have. Similarly, since she hasn’t produced a black foal, only bays, it seems she has two copies of agouti. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Both of her parents were tobiano but only one passed their tobiano on to her. Four of her foals have been solid and they couldn’t have been if she had two copies. She has cat track spots on side with the narrow stripe. These are more common on tobianos with two copies of tobiano, or homozygous. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/cattracks.html Summer Breeze has some kind of white suppression going on. Suppression trying to stop tobiano putting white on her is what gives her that backwards C on her right side. If you study that marking it looks like there’s a piece cut out of her pinto white. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/occludingspots.html She’s a dark bay like her sire was. Color shade is something that’s still being studied. One study found that bays with one copy of black/extension are lighter in color than bays with two. Since Summer Breeze appears to have two copies that correlates. It’s also possible she has sooty that’s helping make her a dark bay. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/colorshade.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/sooty.html   Misty’s Heart of the Storm is a 2005 great great granddaughter of Misty. Her sire is palomino tobiano Island Wildfire, 2001 Assateague born son of Tornado and Sanddancer. Her dam is palomino Misty’s MayDay Twister who was a daughter of Misty II and had her a Breyer model in the 90’s. Heart is a current member of the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team alongside her full brother Misty’s Sunfire. She is bred and owned by my friend Kendy Allen. I first saw Heart as a tiny week old foal bounding around the ring at the Chincoteague Pony Centre. I can’t believe she turned 20 this year! Her name is Heart of the Storm because she has a heart shaped pinto marking by her right shoulder. Misty’s Heart of the Storm’s test results: a/a, e/e, nd1/nd1, TO/n, EDXW3/n Despite both of her parents being palominos Heart is a chestnut, e/e. Neither parent passed their cream dilution on to her. She also does not carry the bay causing agouti, shown as a/a. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html She has two copies of non-dun1, or nd1, which often causes ponies to have primitive markings like dorsal stripes. It doesn’t appear she has a dorsal stripe but she has so much white it’s hard to tell! https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings... Heart is obviously a tobiano pinto and since only her sire is a tobiano she has one copy, TO/n. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html Because she has so much white and such a big blaze I’d always figured she had another pinto pattern in addition to tobiano. Before we knew more I guessed it was splashed white because some of her family seems to have it. It’s not splashed white, but was happy to find out I was right she has something else! Heart has Eden White 3 aka EDXW3 which was discovered in the past year. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/eden-white.html   Catwalk Chaos is a chestnut tobiano mare born in 2010. She's one of only two known offspring of the solid bay Yankee Savage, better known as Chaos. Her dam is chestnut tobiano Paint By Number, better known as Paint Butt. Paint Butt was also the dam of the late Carnival Baby and granddam of Good Old Days Bailey's Star. She's had four foals kept for the herd all of whom are still living: Catwalk's Olympic Glory, Judy's Sunshine, Cher's Hope, and CLG Apollo. Catwalk Chaos had the nickname Margarita because the marking on her right side looks like a margarita glass! Catwalk Chaos's likely genetic makeup: e/e, TO/n Catwalk Chaos is a chestnut like her dam. But she also had to receive a copy of chestnut from her sire who would have carried it recessively. She passes one copy of chestnut on to all of her foals. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html We don't have enough information to know if she carries the bay causing agouti. Only one of her foals has been bay, sired by the bay tobiano Ajax. The rest have been palomino or chestnut. Since her sire was bay she might have inherited agouti, or not. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Catwalk Chaos has one copy of tobiano pinto, inherited from her dam. Her two solid non-pinto foals also tell us that. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html She seems to have something that's suppressing the amount of white she has. And she has a couple of big occluding spots. If you look closely at her "margarita glass" and the big "C" on her other side it looks like there's a piece missing out of them. Something kept white from going in those missing pieces and we call those occluding spots. She's not really a minimal pinto but her foals Judy's Sunshine and CLG Apollo could be considered minimal pinto. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/occludingspots.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/minimaltobiano.html   Copper Moose was one of a group of half Arabians born in 1996. His sire is the chestnut registered Arabian Premierre and his dam was the buckskin Sandy's Grey. Copper was born on the Leonard family's farm and his dam is a sister to Misty Dawn, dam of the recently deceased Poco Latte PW. Copper didn't sire a ton of foals but has descendants in the current herd. His two daughters kept for the herd are LZS Mark's Island Liberty and Dakota Sky's Cody 2 Socks. He was almost killed by another stallion in 2010, but recovered and lived almost 5 more years before passing the winter of 2014/2015. I got to watch Copper his whole life; I saw him sold as a buyback and spent some quality time standing with him at the fence at Pony Penning 2014. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/halfarabian.html Copper Moose was a buckskin like his dam and he sired several cream dilute foals. Both of his buyback daughters were bay and didn't inherit his cream. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/buckskin.html Buckskin is bay diluted by cream and he appeared to have one copy of agouti. Agouti causes black to stay on the pony's points with a brown body, which is a bay. One of Copper's assumed foals was a black pinto. If he had two copies of agouti he couldn't have sired a black foal. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Since Copper's sire was a chesnut he carried recessive chestnut. Chestnuts like Premierre always pass one copy of chestnut on to their offspring. Copper sired at least one chestnut offspring. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html   Misty's Storm Chaser is a 2004 daughter of the prolific off island stallion Cezanne. He was a half brother to the well known Shyanne via their dam. Chase's dam was the bay Misty's RainDrop who competed as an eventer. She is owned and was bred by my friend Kendy Allen. She's been part of the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team, has also been a show pony and competed in eventing in her youth. I've known her all her life and is one of the many ponies that now make me feel old. Misty's Storm Chaser's test results: a/a, E/e, nd1/nd2, TO/n Chase is a black, one of the most popular colors in Chincoteague Ponies. Since her sire was chestnut she carries red recessively. This shows up on her test as E/e. The E for black and the e for red. a/a means she doesn't have the bay causing agouti. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/black.html Her dam was solid and her sire was tobiano so she only inherited one copy of tobiano. This showed up on her test as TO/n. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html Chase's primitive markings test was nd1/nd2. nd1 can cause primitive markings like dorsal stripes, but she doesn't have any primitive markings. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings... An interesting thing she does have is lacing. It's a bit hard to describe so click on the below link to see it. A genetic link hasn't been found but it can run in families. Her full sister Misty's SnowDrop has lacing too. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/lacing.html Chase also has something suppressing the amount of white tobiano is trying to put on her. Can really see it by the big occluding spot on her face that's covering up part of her blaze. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/occludingspots.html   |
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