Showing posts with label Alice's Sandcastle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice's Sandcastle. Show all posts

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Foal Count Up to Forty-four!

As of this morning, the foal count on the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge was up to forty-four!  Captain Dan Davis says he has to get crackin', because Darcy and Steve Cole have spotted nine more new foals than he has so far this season...   In any event, here are the latest foals, and a few up-dated photos of some of the older ones:
Foal 42 is a filly for Alice's Sandcastle and Maverick


Foal 43  is a chestnut colt for Surfer Dude's Gidget and Puzzle


Foal 44 is a chestnut out of Misty Mills and sired by Puzzle


And this is a closer look at foal 23 - a foal out of Gingersnap, by Prince -
the lighting isn't great; still not sure if it's a solid palomino, 
or a minimally marked pinto...


***  All photos shown today are the property of DSC Photography  ***

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Latest Chincoteague Pony Foal Photos...

The latest mare to foal delivered baby 42 to the Chincoteague Pony herd that belongs to the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company.  A new foal was spotted with Alice's Sandcastle, who has been in Maverick's herd for two years.  The mare is a sooty buckskin, like Poco Latte, and it is difficult to determine what the foals' color will be once it sheds its' baby fur. (It could be a sooty buckskin like Mom, a bay, or black.)   So far, only one photo from a distance, taken by DSC Photography:

  And, thanks to DSC Photography, we have some great photos of  foal # 41, a perlino pinto with two blue eyes.  This baby boy was sired by Legacy, and is out of the buckskin mare Zustan - her first foal.


    This little filly  looks to make an excellent riding horse/pony.  She is foal 11, a chestnut pinto chunk, out of Dreamer's Gift, and sired by either Ajax or Puzzle.   Photos by DSC Photography.


  There were only four photos of foal 23, a foal out of Gingersnap (Surfer's Shining Star)  and Prince, all taken at a great distance.  This is the closest one yet, even though all one sees is a golden hump asleep in the grass beside her Mom - both at the left of the photo.  Taken by Gina Aguilera and posted on her Chincoteague Pony Names: Smartphone App Facebook page:
** I had, a few days ago, posted two photos of what I thought was foal 23, in the woods with her dam.  They are not foal 23, but foal 19 with her dam, Surfer Princess.  I will correct that post as soon as I am finished with this one.  **

  Foal 34, a chestnut filly, out of Kimmee Sue, and sired by Ken.  DSC Photography.

And foal 36, a palomino pinto out of Lorna Dune and sired by Prince.  This photo is by Gina Aguilera, and is from her Chincoteague Pony Names: Smartphone App site:

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

2017 Chincoteague Pony Foals 51 through 60

These are photos from different sources and people, some are copyrighted (mainly by Darcy and Steve Cole, owners of DSC Photography of Greenbackville, Virginia), some are not.  Copyrighted photos are always marked so.
   The names in quotation marks after the sex id are my personal names for the foals - of course, whoever actually purchases the babies will give them their registered names - but this helps me keep them straight....
   The photos are also NOT arranged chronologically - I just try to choose shots that give a good view of markings on each side, as well as a facial shot...   Sometimes a butt shot will be included because of bulls-eyes or tail markings - a half-color tail, or a tipped tail, etc...


#51 - filly        sire: Hoppy; dam: Carol's Little Freedom       4 June 2017





#52 - colt       sire: Puzzle; dam: Misty Mills         7 June 2017

​Only photos I've seen of him so far....



#53 - colt   "Divine Marsh"     sire: Maverick; dam: Marsh Mallow        9 June 2017






#54 - colt  "Watts"     sire: Riptide; dam: Randy       10 June 2017





#55 - colt        sire: Prince; dam: Lefty's Checkmark          12 June 2017





#56 - filly        sire:Hoppy; dam: Isle Treasure (she's 23 this year)      14 June 2017





#57 - filly       sire: Ace;  dam: Lorna Dune          14 June 2017




#58 - filly           sire: Prince; dam: Rainbow Delight         22 June 2017




#59 - filly  "Sandy Current"     sire: Riptide; dam: Alice's Sandcastle            22 June 2017
​Mom, baby, and Dad taking a leak





#60 - filly   "Surf Bear"       sire: Hoppy;  dam: Surf Queen          26 June 2017
   Half-sister to Surfer Princess and Surfer's Riptide 
  Look at those legs!!!   Three white anklets.....   bay, bay, bay