Surfer's Riptide Returned to Assateague - Two of His Mares Foal

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

Foal #27  -  8 May    filly, out of Loveland's Secret Feather, sired by Riptide

These photos were taken by Captain Dan Davis of Captain Dan's Around the Island Tours.

Foal # 16 -  filly out of Doc Amrien, by Hoppy

Foals 9 and 13, sired by Wild Thing; colt out of Summer's Gentle Sea Breeze on left;

filly out of Tuleta Star on right

Three New Foals on 30 April

The Chincoteague ponies produced three new foals for our delight today -  the middle foal is the only one seen up-close; and the other two were at a great distance.  Baybe, who looked like she would burst during Spring Round-Up, had a pinto foal at her side early this morning.  Baybe is a black pinto, and the foal's sire is Tornado's Prince of Tides, a palomino pinto.  From the distance the two photos I've seen were taken, I'd guess that the baby is a chestnut pinto; when seen at a closer range, the pinto color may need to be changed, but the foal is definitely a pinto.
   Then Doc Amrien was spied with a bay pinto, who was sired by Hoppy (Effie's Papa Bear).  Captain Dan was able to get some very nice photos of that foal.
    Later, when Darcy and Steve Cole were hiking back, another foal was spotted in Prince of Tide's herd, this one with dam Checkers (also known as Giraffe). Foal 18 appears to be a solid chestnut, at the moment...
    The first and last photos were taken by, and are the property of, DSC Photography.  The photos of Doc Amrien's foal belong to Captain Dan's Around the Island Tours...

Foal 16 - out of Baybe, by Tornado's Prince of Tides

Foal 17 - out of Doc Amrien, by Hoppy

Foal 18 (at left) -  out of Checkers, by Prince

Foal 16 (at right) - out of Baybe, by Prince