Tested Pony: Misty's Heart of the Storm

Misty’s Heart of the Storm is a 2005 great great granddaughter of Misty. Her sire is palomino tobiano Island Wildfire, 2001 Assateague born son of Tornado and Sanddancer. Her dam is palomino Misty’s MayDay Twister who was a daughter of Misty II and had her a Breyer model in the 90’s. Heart is a current member of the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team alongside her full brother Misty’s Sunfire. She is bred and owned by my friend Kendy Allen. I first saw Heart as a tiny week old foal bounding around the ring at the Chincoteague Pony Centre. I can’t believe she turned 20 this year! Her name is Heart of the Storm because she has a heart shaped pinto marking by her right shoulder.
Misty’s Heart of the Storm’s test results: a/a, e/e, nd1/nd1, TO/n, EDXW3/n

Despite both of her parents being palominos Heart is a chestnut, e/e. Neither parent passed their cream dilution on to her. She also does not carry the bay causing agouti, shown as a/a.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

She has two copies of non-dun1, or nd1, which often causes ponies to have primitive markings like dorsal stripes. It doesn’t appear she has a dorsal stripe but she has so much white it’s hard to tell!
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings...

Heart is obviously a tobiano pinto and since only her sire is a tobiano she has one copy, TO/n.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

Because she has so much white and such a big blaze I’d always figured she had another pinto pattern in addition to tobiano. Before we knew more I guessed it was splashed white because some of her family seems to have it. It’s not splashed white, but was happy to find out I was right she has something else! Heart has Eden White 3 aka EDXW3 which was discovered in the past year.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/eden-white.html