Beltona Minnie Mouse.
Mouse in late summer, early 1998. Like her father, she's a blonde. Believe it or not, she'd regrown her winter coat. That's the problem with Melbourne's legendary weather! Mouse is maturing into a beautiful young pony. This was taken the day after she officially became a yearling, at six and a half months old. This photo was taken on one of the rare occasions Mouse didn't race up to me the moment I had the camera out! It is just on sunset, with a little orange light falling on her through the trees. Here she is three months old. An this was taken on one of those all too common occasions when Mouse has her nose shoved in my face! Mouse in with the big girls! Not to be left out when there's lucerne to be had, Mouse is in the corral with Bon Bon (no relation), Jadey (Mum) and Rapdancer (half sister). Most of my photos of Mouse look something like this, as she turns and walks up to me. This time she actually stood still for long enough for me to take the photo. Of note here is her first little bit of forelock, just starting to show. The week before (see photo above) she didn't really have a forelock at all. Winter woollies!
Family Tree.
This is as much of Mouse's family tree that is traceable. Beltona Minnie Mouse Sire: Beltona Makala AM427F Dam: Beltona Jadey AM1456F Sire: Beltona Makala AM427F Dam: Lucy Sire: Delvin Park Eureka Dam: Delvin Park Helena Great grand sire. Delvin Park Eureka. Black Shetland stallion. This was scanned from a really old washed out polaroid photo, as was the next photo. Great grand dam. Delvin Park Helena. Black Shetland mare. Grand dam. Lucy. Black Shetland mare. Lucy is the foal in the photo above, and the mare in this photo. The foal in this photo is Beltona Jadey. (see below) Grand sire and Sire. Beltona Makala. Chestnut miniature pony stallion. Does this guy look familiar to you? Prizes include Supreme Champion at the Royal Melbourne Show. Dam. Beltona Jadey. Bay miniature pony mare. For those that are wondering, it is not usual practice to mate such closely related animals, unless they exhibit a rare and desirable trait that the breeder is trying to breed for, in which case it is referred to as "line breeding". In the case of Mouse, it was an emergency, attempting to breed a replacement chestnut colt when it was feared that Makala was about to die. As it turned out, Makala made a full recovery, and the resultant foal was a filly. Makala, as of October 1999 now has his successor, a chestnut colt called Beltona Makala's Image.

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