Historical Pony: Unbridled Beauty

This uniquely marked mare is Unbridled Beauty. She was born in 2001 and tragically was put down due to an unknown affliction in 2006. She had no offspring. Unbridled Beauty was the last foal of the long lived mare Love Affair. She and her dam in 2001 is the first photo. Her sire is thought to be the Maryland transfer Hot Air Balloon. I talked about him in last week's post. Unbridled Beauty's buyback donor Suzanne Craig is one of the wonderful pony ladies that greatly contributed to our knowledge of the ponies.

As you can see in the lovely headshot by Kelly Lidard, Unbridled Beauty had two blue eyes like her presumed sire. Blue eyes are a common characteristic of splashed white 1. The appearance of her pinto pattern certainly looks like she was a tobiano splashed white. She had a big unusually shaped blaze. The beautiful photo of her with the deer shows her spots of color were "broken apart". There are things that splashed white 1 tends to do when combined with tobiano.

It's likely Unbridled Beauty's splashed white came from her sire. But her dam can't be ruled out either as her tobiano pinto pattern is someone unusually shaped.

The last photo is my picture of her at Pony Penning 2005 before she became ill. Her best buddy was Thetis, another presumed daughter of Hot Air Balloon. Thetis had a significant impact on today's herd and I think Unbridled Beauty would have too had she lived.