Historical Pony: Whisper of Living Legend

Whisper of Living Legend was born in 2000 and was the Misty-like pony in the herd for most of her life. Her sire was the half Arabian North Star and her dam was the smoky black tobiano Living Legend. Her dam was previously featured here: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/.../historical... Her old ID number was A96. She had two buybacks, lookalike daughter Trinity of Legend's Whisper in 2005 and her next to last foal in 2018 CLG Rumor Has It. Her buyback donor family, the Moore's, were the donors of both her dam and her daughter Trinity. Quite a few of Whisper's foals had health issues, and not a lot of them lived to full adulthood. The exact why this happened is still unclear. The foals sired by her half uncle Courtney's Boy seemed to have the most issues. She passed away in 2021 and I was glad to have seen her the fall before. Whisper was another pony I watched all her life and I still can't quite believe is gone. She was so distinctive, photogenic, and was quite the personality!
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/halfarabian.html

Whisper was a gorgeous palomino and was her most defining feature. A palomino is a chestnut with one copy of the cream dilution. Statistically she should have passed cream on to half of her foals and indeed 6 of her 13 foals were palomino. She passed chestnut on to all of them, 6 of her foals were chestnut sired by chestnut stallions.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/palomino.html

Only one of her foals wasn't chestnut and he was a bay pinto sired by bay pinto Wild Thing. She probably didn't carry agouti, but with most all of her foals being by chestnut stallions there's no way to know for sure.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html

She was a flashy tobiano pinto and quite a few cat tracks. Both of her parents were tobiano pinto and it appears they both passed tobiano on to her. All of Whisper's foals were tobiano pinto so she was likely homozygous tobiano, aka had two copies. Homozygous tobiano pintos are more likely to have cat tracks and a lot of them so that lines up with her. However it's not always fullproof, homozygous tobianos don't always have cat tracks and occasionally a heterozygous will have some.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/cattracks.html

I always thought it was interesting that she had mapping on her white markings. Mapping really pops out on bays and black but it's more subtle on palominos so I often use her as an example of palomino mapping.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mapping.html

Whisper was an absolutely adorable foal. You can see her as a foal and throughout her life in the soon to be released The Chincoteague Ponies of Assateague, Volume II Mares.
mistyslegacy.com