Bowler Ponies

Pinny Lane and Strike are a unicorn mare and Earth pony colt who first appear in The Cutie Pox. They are not named in the show, their collective title of "BOWLER PONIES" being given in the guidebook The Elements of Harmony and "Strike" being a placeholder name, but Pinny Lane is named in merchandise.

Designs and development
Pinny Lane shares a similar color palette to Sapphire Shores, as well as distinctive long legs, and has the same mane colors and partial mane style as "Pearly Whites". Her name is a play on Penny Lane.

"Strike" shares his design with "Shady Daze", Button Mash, "Green Daze", and "Caramel Coffee", and depending on the angle, he shares his mane style with Scootaloo.

Depiction in the series
Pinny Lane and "Strike" first appear at the Ponyville bowling alley in the season two episode The Cutie Pox. Pinny Lane is among the ponies who watch the Cutie Mark Crusaders bowl, and she marvels at "Strike" as he gets his cutie mark.

"Strike" appears again among the Crusaders' schoolmates throughout the season four episode Twilight Time. He learns of the Crusaders' private sessions with Twilight Sparkle and wants to participate. In the episode, "Strike" is sometimes seen without a cutie mark.

Merchandise
Pinny Lane is named on her Enterplay collectible card game Canterlot Nights expansion set card #47 R, which attributes to Mr. Kingpin the quote "Now there's a pony who knows how to make an entrance!"

Pinny Lane and "Strike" appear together on the Season 2 poster.

Page 33 of Little, Brown's My Little Pony Friendship is Magic official guidebook My Little Pony: The Elements of Harmony lists the two as simply "BOWLER PONIES".