Showing posts with label Thetis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thetis. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Medicine Hat Markings and War Bonnet Markings in Pinto/Paint Horses

On Assateague Island, the Chincoteague ponies on the Virginia end of the island have produced ten foals since Pony Penning at the end of July.  Lately, we had three foals born - Thetis and Wild Thing  had a minimally marked chestnut pinto colt on 30 October; Jessica's Sea Star Sandy and Maverick had a bay filly on 31 October, and on 4 November Cody 2 Socks and Wild things had a foal (sex as yet unknown) that is a bay pinto.  From the first few photos taken, people thought it was marked almost exactly like Thetis' colt - but the new foal is not marked like the colt.
   Thetis and Wild Thing produced a rare "Medicine Hat" colt - a Medicine Hat is "an uncommon pattern where the poll and ears are dark, surrounded completely by white; a true 'medicine hat' pinto or paint usually has a predominantly white body, sometimes with dark coloration by the flanks, chest, and/or above the eyes." They usually have one or two blue eyes - this boy has two blue eyes.  If the color of the ears is broken on the poll - just having ears of color, it has no specific name for the coloration, though some people claim it's a Medicine Hat.  Here's a look at Thetis and Wild Thing's medicine hat colt (photos were taken and are copyrighted by DSC Photography of Greenbackville, Virginia):


Note that he has a small chest shield, a spot on his right flank, a strip of color in his tail, and the small spot on his back behind his shoulder and withers on the left side.  In the Old West he would have been considered a powerful medicine horse in raids and fighting, protecting his rider/owner from wounds, and would have been highly protected at home, as he would be a superior prize to steal.

  Cody 2 Socks and Wild Thing's foal has a War Bonnet marking - it has more color on it's body, and the color over it's ears and poll wraps down onto the side of the face and cheek without a break.  War Bonnets are also rare, and were also looked upon as a good war, or raiding, horse, but they are not the same as a Medicine Hat.  If the color over the ears and poll runs down onto the neck, or onto the face, it is a War Bonnet.  Here are photos taken of Cody 2 Socks' foal (they were taken by Captain Dan Wilson of Captain Dan's Around the Island Tours):




Monday, July 3, 2017

2017 Chincoteague Pony Foals 31 through 40

These are photos from different sources and people, some are copyrighted (mainly by Darcy and Steve Cole, owners of DSC Photography of Greenbackville, Virginia), some are not.  Copyrighted photos are always marked so.
   The names in quotation marks after the sex id are my personal names for the foals - of course, whoever actually purchases the babies will give them their registered names - but this helps me keep them straight....
   The photos are also NOT arranged chronologically - I just try to choose shots that give a good view of markings on each side, as well as a facial shot...   Sometimes a butt shot will be included because of bulls-eyes or tail markings - a half-color tail, or a tipped tail, etc...


#31 -  filly  "Fleck"      sire: Riptide:  dam: Lyra's Vega          10 May 2017
 

She has a map of South America on her nose!





#32 - colt            sire: Wild Thing; dam: Black Star            11 May 2017





#33 - filly            sire: Ace;  dam: Beach Baby                12 May 2017
Baby and Dad





#34 - filly  "Drake's Gambit"     sire: Puzzle;  dam: Duckie/Sweet Jane     12 May 2017






#35 - colt   "Bat Wild"        sire: Wild Thing; dam: JABATTA            14 May 2017





#36 - colt  "Omega Wild"      sire: Wild Thing; dam: Thetis            14 May 2017






#37 - filly          sire: Wild Thing; dam Summer Breeze                  14 May 2017





#38 - filly               sire: Hoppy; dam: Tuleta Star             15 May 2017





#39 - colt   "Henry"     sire: Maverick; dam: Marguerite                16 May 2017






#40 - colt  "Lil Saddle Tramp"     sire: Legacy; dam: White Saddle       17 May - 19 May 2017
       foal got bogged down in marsh mud; was lost


Thursday, May 18, 2017

New Chincoteague Pony Foals

Tuleta Star bay filly by Hoppy

Calceti'n bay colt by Maverick

Suzy's Sweetheart chestnut colt by Riptide

Marguerite of Assateague's foal with one blue eye by Maverick

Black Star's bay pinto colt by Wild Thing  *

Thetis' pinto colt by Wild Thing  *

White Saddle's buckskin pinto colt by Legacy  *

* The three photos marked with the asterisk are copyrighted by
DSC Photography of Greenbackville, VA.  *