Pony Penning 2017 - Buy-Back Foals Chosen - Photos

During and after today's veterinarian checkup on all of the Chincoteague ponies that belong to the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, the CVFC had the vet mark nine foals with a dye that will wash away.  These foals are the ones that are designated "Buy Back" foals.  You bid on the foal in the regular auction - and all Buy-Backs are announced as they step into the sales area - if you make the highest, winning bid, you pay the full price that you made the bid for, either by a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card, by cash, or by Travelers Checks.  A buy back foal will return to the island and live out the rest of it's natural life living wild on Assateague Island.  You will be able to have your photo taken with the foal once you purchase it, and you also name the foal.  You can visit it, or try to see it, each time you visit the island thereafter - but it will stay running free on Assateague except during the Fall and Spring Round-ups and during the week of Pony Penning.
    This year, seven fillies and two colts have been chosen by the Pony Committee as buy-backs.  They are chosen for their breeding (blood lines), conformation, and markings.   The foals, in order of birth this year are:

Tornado's Legacy - Sweetheart colt     born 13 March 2017

Chief Golden Eagle - Pony Lady's Sweet Surprise filly     born  7 April 2017

Ajax - Dream Catcher filly      born 23 April 2017

Filly, dam, sire

Wild Bill (aka Cinnamon Hologram) - Landrie's Georgia Peach filly

born 26 April 2017

[one of last two foals sired by Wild Bill, the other is JABATTA's colt]

Surfer's Riptide - Leah's Bayside Angel filly     born 29 April 2017

(filly will shed out black or extremely dark bay)

Wild Thing - Thetis colt      born 14 May 2017

Ajax - Miracle's Natural Beauty filly      born 19 May 2017

Maverick - Surfin' Chantel filly      born 21 May 2017

Hoppy (aka Effie's Papa Bear) - Isle Treasure filly      born 14 June 2017

2017 Chincoteague Pony Foals Update 61 through 66

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...

#61  - colt       sire: Ace; dam: Dakota's Promise     1 July 2017

#62  -  filly  "Indy Dream"    sire:Ace; dam: Grandma's Dream     4 July 2017

#63 - filly   sire: Hoppy; dam: Elusive Star   5 July 2017

(Kachina & Kokopelli in background)

#64  -  colt    sire: Ace; dam: Jessica's Sandy      9 July 2017

#65  -  ?     sire: Phantom Mist; dam: Daisy       10 July 2017

#66  -  ?     sire: Riptide; dam: Butterfly Kisses    13 July 2017

2017 Chincoteague Pony Foals 41 through 50

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...

#41 - filly       sire: Ken; dam: Cinnamon Blaze                17 May 2017

(l-r) Cinnamon Blaze, her filly; Whisper, her colt; Freckles

#42 - filly "Lively Lady"   sire: Ajax; dam: Miracle's Natural Beauty     19 May 2017

#43 - colt  "Bart"    sire: Maverick; dam: Essie          19 May 2017

​Essie's colt (Bart) standing; Marguerite's colt (Henry) lying

#44 -filly "Darkness"     sire: Maverick; dam: Surfin' Chantel    21 May 2017

  originally black; think she'll be a very dark bay - seal brown or darker....

Her muzzle is a lighter brown in the above photo - not black...

#45 - colt         sire: Legacy; dam: Lady Hook/Suzy Q      26 May 2017

#46 - colt  "Nuthatch"        sire: Ace; dam: Chickadee         27 May 2017

#47 - colt          sire:Puzzle; dam: Destiny     28 May - 16 June 2017

Foal born with congenital foreleg abnormalities; legs casted; no improvement; foal could not stand on it's own without ligaments and bone in lower legs; euthanized.

#48 - colt  "E Dot"       sire: Prince; dam: Ella of Assateague          1 June 2017

#49 - colt               sire: Ace; dam: Sonny's Legacy      1 June 2017

#50 - filly  "Snippy"     sire: Riptide; dam: Pappy's Pony           2 June 2017