Tested Pony: Wave Runner's Kenzie

Our next featured tested pony is another bald faced chestnut that was born on Assateague. This is Wave Runner's Kenzie owned by Wave Runner Chincoteague Ponies in Ohio. As her name implies she's a daughter of Ken and her dam is Kimmee Sue. She's full sister to Sue's Crown of Hope who is the buyback of Kenzie's owner and is named for her late owner Sue Lowery. The last time I talked to Sue was about her new filly she'd just bought, Kenzie. The first photo is a picture I took of Kenzie at the auction.

Kenzie tested as e/e which is unsurprising because she's a chestnut and that's what they test as. More interesting is that she tested as A/A which means she carries two copies of Agouti. Chestnuts have no black for agouti to do anything to but any black based foals she would have could only be bay based.

Her bald face and socks are from her having one copy of Splashed White 1. These markings are pretty common for a pony having one copy of SW1. Her sire Ken appears to have SW1 which he likely would have inherited from his dam Star Gazer. But there's some indications that her dam Kimmee Sue may have SW1 too, also inherited from her dam. She's had two foals and both were homozygous splashed white so the test wasn't a surprise. Kenzie has a little bit of blue in an eye which is another common characteristic of SW1.

Kenzie tested as nd1/nd2 and as you can see she has a dorsal stripe. nd1 is what causes ponies to have dorsal stripes and other primitive markings.

Thanks to Rebekah Hart for her 2023 pictures of Kenzie.