Lady has a fabulous temperament and is extremely laid-back!  She was successfully shown in hand as a youngster in the UK prior to import and was always in the ribbons.  She looks very much like her sire in overall type -- short-coupled with lots of bone and feather.  Her sire, Ludworth Adam, is a proficient jumper and very successful competitor in the show ring, regularly competing in ridden Mountain and Moorland classes, working hunter pony classes, dressage, show jumping and hunter trials.

Lady was born black but is gradually turning grey.  She was steel grey when she came to us as a 3 yo but then started to dapple and is now mostly white.  She will probably be completely white by age 9 or 10.  Grey Fells are also extremely rare in the Fell pony breed, accounting for only 4% of Fell foal registrations in 2000.  The grey color in Fell ponies was believed to be introduced back at the time of King Henry VIII who ordered the slaughter of “short” equines for being of “no use”.  The monks, being of the "White Order", protected many British native pony breeds by hiding them and introduced their preferred color – white (a.k.a. grey) – at that time.

Lady has a number of beautiful foals to her credit, some of which will stay black and some of which are turning grey.  Her grey foals were born jet black with a few grey hairs around the eyes, a telltale sign that the foal will eventually turn grey like its mother.  Grey is a dominant color for which Lady, based on her parentage, is heterozygous.  That is, when bred to our black stallions, she should have a 50/50 chance of producing a black vs. grey foal.

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