Tested Pony: Merry Teapot's High Bid

Merry Teapot's High Bid was born in 1991 and had quite an influence on today's herd. I've featured most all of her family so I figured I should finally write about her! Merry Teapot was sired by buckskin Gunner's Moon and her dam was bay tobiano Sweet Mischief, aka Goose. Her 2000 buckskin daughter Salt Water Taffee (laying by her head in the first photo), 2004 bay daughter Daisey, and 2010 buckskin tobiano daughter Molly's Rosebud were all kept as part of the Assateague herd. All three of those daughters have had daughters kept also. Merry Teapot's devoted buyback donor Karen Peck owns her 2008 son (he's at her feet in the second photo). Karen is also the donor of her granddaughter Rosie's Teapot. Another son, the buckskin Spirit of the Wind, is owned by the current managers of the Chincoteague Pony Centre.

Merry Teapot was a buckskin like her sire Gunner's Moon. She was a bay with one copy the cream dilution. Two of her buyback daughters are buckskin and she passed cream along to about half her foals. She never had a black foal so she it appears she had two copies of the bay causing agouti. Merry Teapot also carried recessive chestnut, her palomino foals tell us that.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/buckskin.html

Only her dam Goose was a tobiano so Merry Teapot could only have one copy of tobiano. She also had several solid colored foals to tell us that.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

Merry Teapot was a minimal tobiano and that's something that can be seen in many of her descendants. The inheritance of that isn't testable but we can see how it can be inherited in her family.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/minimaltobiano.html