Three New Chincoteague Foals - Two Wild, One Tame

After a few days with scattered intense thunderstorms, foal watchers were expecting babies - and there were three.  First, the Leonard family are celebrating the fourth generation birth of Honeymoon. She and her dam, Martha, are located in the pasture between the McDonald's and the Refuge Inn on Maddox Boulevard, just before the bridge to Assateague.  The Leonard family has been breeding Chincoteague ponies for generations, and Don Leonard was the man chosen to drive Misty back to the island from Fort Wayne, Indiana back in 1957...

Honeymoon and Mom Martha

 Yes, she's a blue-eyed baby...

Over on Assateague this morning, Captain Dan Davis spotted Leah's Bayside Angel in the last throes of giving birth to a large bay baby...  She's looked as if she was expecting twins for quite a while...  This is foal number 51, and the sire is Wild Thing:

Thanks to Captain Dan's Around the Island Tours for the photos!

Foal number 52 is a dark child, and was spotted by Darcy and Steve Cole about an hour after Captain Dan saw Leah's bay.  This foal is the baby of Black Pearl and Maverick and was born this morning.  The photo was taken looking into the light, so the color is difficult to ascertain - might be black, bay, or dark brown....  Time and a closer viewing will give us the answer.  The only photo so far is below, and was taken by DSC Photography: