Historical Pony: High Five

High Five was a chestnut mare born in 1989. High Five was the name the old Chincoteague Pony Association gave her, along with the identification number 6. Her turnback donor family named her Cinnamon Swirl aka Cindy. Pretty much everyone from back when she was alive called her Cindy and that's what I knew her as too. Her donor family followed her for her entire life so we knew birth year and parents thanks to them. Cindy's sire was a solid chestnut called Old Red or Simon. Her dam was a bay with one sock named Silk and Lace and nicknamed Pudg. Through Cindy's dam she was a half sister to Carol's Little Freedom. Her only known foal kept for the herd was the solid chestnut mare Sashay Lady. Cindy was an extremely smart and resourceful mare who was a favorite of many. Cindy died in 2013. Her descendants in the current herd are Dreamer's Gift, Chili, Serendipity, Dreamer's Stardust, and Jersey Jaxs.

Cindy was a chestnut and all 13 of her recorded foals were chestnut too. The sires of all of her foals were chestnut, so with both parents chestnut there was no other option for her foals. Two chestnuts always produce a chestnut.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

Since Cindy's dam was bay it's possible she inherited agouti from her or her sire carried agouti unseen. But with all of her foals being chestnut there's no way to know. I looked through her descendants to see if that would offer any insight, but nope.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html

Cindy's only white was a big star. She had a few tobiano foals but the tobiano was inherited from the tobiano sire Cherokee Chief, whom she was with for many years.
She occasionally would show some mealy around her nose, flank, and legs. You can see it in the first picture.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mealy.html

Cindy had a flaxen mane during parts of her life. It would come and go as it sometimes can do. She's flaxen in the second photo.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/flaxen.html