Tested Pony: Surf N Turf

Surf N Turf is a 2008 dark bay/brown mare born at Thousand Welcomes Farm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Both of her parents were born on Assateague. Her sire is dark/bay brown tobiano Chesapeake Powhattan’s Promise, 1998 son of Witch Doctor and Promise of Summer. Surf’s dam is chestnut Tidewater Millennium Surprise, 2000 daughter of Surfer Dude and Satin and Silk. Surf is a current and longtime member of the 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝑫𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒎. She’s currently the only non-Misty descendant on the team. Surf represented her uncle Surfer’s Riptide at Breyerfest 2025.
Surf N Turf’s test results: A/a, E/e, nd2/nd2, TO/n, EDXW2

Surf has one copy of black and one copy of red, reflected as E/e. She has one copy of agouti which makes her a bay. You may have spotted that I called her a dark bay/brown. Brown is something that pretty much everyone thinks is different genetically from a bay, but it hasn’t been found yet. If you compare Surf with a bay they look quite a bit different. Interestingly her sire and his sire Witch Doctor were also a browns. Time will tell if the theorized difference in brown is found.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/brown.html

She doesn’t have a dorsal stripe or any other primitive markings. That shows up on her test as non-dun2, or nd2/nd2.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings...

Her sire was a tested homozygous for tobiano so he passed it on to her. Surf’s dam was solid so she didn’t have it to pass on, nether of her parents had tobiano either. So Surf is heterozygous for tobiano, TO/n.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

I’d wondered if Surf had something in addition to tobiano, she has a fairly big blaze and the edges of her pinto markings are jagged. And indeed she does! She has one copy of Eden White 2, or EDXW2/n. Surf is the first Chincoteague to test to be a combination of Tobiano Eden White 2.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/eden-white.html