Critter Sitter's Blog: Surfer's Riptide Returned to Assateague

Riptide was removed for Pony Jail at the Carnival Grounds on Chincoteague yesterday morning and placed inside the corral on Assateague's southern end. By late afternoon, all of his mares had converged to the corral, so the men from the CVFC Pony Committee opened the gates, and let the ladies rejoin their man. (Summer was the only mare who didn't appear, and it's possible that the two lead mares have driven her away during Riptide's absence.) Early morning visitors to the corral today found a brand new foal with Got Milk - a handsome bay colt with four socks, a large blaze (like Riptide's) and a blue eye on the right. Not long after, Loveland's Secret Feather gave birth to a filly - a bay pinto with two blue eyes. She is minimally marked with color - her right side is white and the outer side of her right ear is brown; she has a black forelock and a teeny strip of black mane between her ears, and a brown left ear, and a tiny brown spot near her left flank. There is a break in the color between her ears, so she is not a Medicine Hat....
The following photos of the foals were taken by DSC Photography, and are copyrighted by them.

Foal #26 - 8 May colt, out of Got Milk, sired by Riptide