Historical Pony: Nosey

Nosey, also known as Nag Me Not or Spots was born in 1984 or 1985. Her old ID number was 78 which was branded on her left shoulder. I have a feeling that she was nosey to the folks that were naming the ponies back in the mid 90's! Her parents are unknown at this time. Her only known offspring kept for the herd was the buckskin tobiano Honeybee who was the most recently featured historical pony. Nosey is one we have to use her foals to figure out things about her genetics since we don’t know what her parents colors were.

She was a chestnut so she passed chestnut on to all her foals. Nosey was recorded as having one chestnut foal and two palominos. May have had more but records get thinner as time goes back. Since she was chestnut that means both of her parents either were chestnut or carried it recessively.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

Nosey had a black in 2000 so that means she didn’t have the bay causing agouti or she only had one copy. She had 3 buckskin foals and one bay, all by buckskin stallions.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html

One of Nosey’s nicknames was Spots, and you can see why by her extensive cat tracks. That’s the main thing I remember about her before I knew anything else about her. That many cat tracks is often an indication that a pony has two copies of tobiano. It appears to be the case with her as all of Nosey's foals that we know of were tobiano. If she did have two copies of tobiano that means both of her parents were tobiano.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/cattracks.html