Historical Pony: Black Star

This mare is a matriarch of a line of ponies in the current herd. Black Star was born August 1998. Her sire was the dark bay/brown tobiano Witch Doctor and her dam the solid chestnut Rap the Wind. None of her grandparents have been identified yet. Black Star had four daughters kept for the herd, two of which made it to produce their own foals: her first foal Scottiee's ET in 2002, Beacon in 2011, Chickadee in 2013, and CLG Wild Star in 2016. ET has then had four daughters kept for the herd; one of which was recently featured Sweetheart who has a stallion son. Black Star died winter 2021. The second photo was taken the fall before she died.

Black Star was a bay carrying recessive chestnut. She inherited chestnut from her chestnut dam. She also produced 3 chestnut foals to tell us that. Black Star may have had two copies of agouti since she never produced a black foal out of 13 foals.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

Black Star was a tobiano pinto like her sire. Since her dam wasn't a tobiano she could only have had one copy of tobiano. Her two non pinto foals also tell us that.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

She and her granddaughter Sweetheart are somewhat similarly marked. This is because they both likely have some type of white suppression. It was trying to keep away her white markings. If you trace the big dark spots on both of her back look like they shouldn't be there and instead be white.