Historical Pony: Blonde's 1999 Colt

Here's another smoky black colt produced by the perlino mare Blonde. He's likely sired by the chestnut tobiano Cherokee Chief as Blonde was in his herd for many years. That makes him a half brother to last week's smoky black colt. His full sister is Tidewater Treasure who was born the next year; she lived on Assateague from 2018-2022 and is the dam of current feral mare Tidewater's Reflection of Ace. He was auction number A25 at the 1999 auction, also his dam's identification number.

I checked my photos from 1999 but I didn't get a picture of him. These were taken by Jaye Okolovitch. He's a tobiano unlike his half brother, which was inherited from his sire. He looks to be a bit more of a normal looking black than last week's colt. He has a bit of the funky looking black color, along with some sunfading.

Double dilutes like Blonde can only produce cream dilute foals so that's why we know he's a smoky black. More about smoky blacks: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/smokyblack.html