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CRIBAN VICTOR
A FOUNDING FATHER OF THE SECTION B PONY

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During the period of "growth" for the Section B pony certain stallions have proved to be landmarks. One of these ponies is Criban Victor (1775) (Criban Winston x Criban Whalebone) born in 1944. Criban Victor is the best example of Section B ponies with the "outside" influence of Cob breeding. To quote Dr. Wynne Davies from a recent letter "though if (Criban) Victor had been foaled after (19)50's, he would have been in Section C (registry)". Certainly, the history of Section B ponies would have to be re-written if Criban Victor had not been part of the foundation of this section!

Criban Victor was the Champion of Ponies of Britain Show in 1959, 1962, 1965, and 1966 and the National Pony Society Shows in 1956, 1959, and 1960. He left the show ring in a blaze of glory in 1969 at twenty-five years of age when he won the Section B Championship and was Reserve Supreme Champion of the whole show at Caernarfon. See Wynne Davies book pg 208

Criban Victor's dam, Criban Whalebone (9138) (Mathrafal Broadcast x Criban Mulberry) was the product of crossing one of the oldest lines of Criban' s Welsh Mountain ponies to that of a Cob. Criban Whalebone was a bay mare about 13 hands. Criban Victor's GrandFather on his Sire's side is COED COCH GLYNDWR. Rocko has 8 crosses to Ciban Victor in his pedigree

KING FLYER

b 1894
WELSH COB
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Criban Victor's Great Great GrandFather on his Dam's side.