The same time especially buyers from overseas did not want the so coloured ponies and the small Irish farmers dependent on selling their foals could not accept that colour anymore. However since then they were treated like not existing, they did not get any passport - nothing. These three years are meant to give more information about the colour and if the number of BECs would increase during that time. Many people are doing research at the moment about the BECs and it will be interesting to see what they will find out. So far there seem to be some BECs that could have vision problems - these are the ones that have more reduced eye pigmentation and it might be that these are the one described as the pinky eyed ponies.
Owner tell that their eyes look more pinky especially against sunlight.
Whatever will be the result it is encouraging that now science will be the basis and not myth and legend. I will not go into details of colour inheritance because this would lead us to far, I will just show you some pictures of BECs to demonstrate most of them are normal, fully useful animals. If you like them or not decide yourself.