Possible Buy-Back Foals.... (With Photos)

According to reports from the Southern Holding Pens on Beach Road at Assateague Island, Virginia, ten fillies are now sporting necks tags, after the veterinarian check.  There are eight red tags and two yellow tags.  Usually the red tags designate the chosen Buy Back foals for the year.  The two yellow tags are alternate choices, in case of injury, or if one of the red tags ends up being the first foal to swim across the channel and be raffled off as (in this case) Queen Neptune.

    The eight red-tagged fillies are:

Black Pearl and Riptide

Calceti'n and Ace or Maverick

Essie and Mavrick

Whisper of a Living Legend and Ken

Beach Baby and Ace

Catwalk Chaos and Prince of Tides

Kachina and Hoppy

Doc Amrien and Hoppy

Yellow Tags:

Jigsaw and Tornado's Legacy

Skylark and Legacy or Puzzle

2017 Foals of Chincoteague Ponies 1 - 10

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 in 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...

#1  -  filly  "March Hare"    sire:  Legacy;  dam:  Anne Bonny       5 March 2017

Mom, baby, and Dad

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#2 - colt  "Storm Warning"    sire: Legacy;  dam:  Sweetheart          13 March 2017

#3 -  colt  "Lost Tide"   sire:  Riptide;  dam:  Suede    27 March - 31 March 2017

     died from massive umbilical infection

#4 - colt  "Swan"   sire: Legacy; dam: Little Duckie     27 March 2017

#5 - filly  "Twisted Spots"  sire: Legacy; dam: Splash of Freckles      31 March 2017

 

#6 - filly  "Aquila d'Oro"   sire: Chief;  dam: Lady    7 April 2017

#7 - filly  "Tidal Star"    sire: Riptide; dam: Secret       15 April 2017

Mom, baby, and Dad

# 8 - filly  "Festival Queen"   sire: Prince; dam: Carnival Baby   17 April 2017

#9 - colt  "Black Prince"   sire: Prince;  dam: Baybe    19 April 2017

#10 - colt  "Ken's Heart"      sire: Ken; dam: Whisper        20 April 2017

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Assateague Island Scenes

A black-crowned night heron - known on Chincoteague as a "wop"

Believe it or not, Whisper of a Living Legend has already had her baby this year...

getting up from a nap

Cattle egret with a snack

Filly born to Surf Queen and Hoppy on 26 June

(The photo above and the one below were taken by DSC Photography)

Ace's Black Tie Affair - due to the mud, you can't see both hind stockings above his hocks

Assateague sunrise

A royal tern

Assateague full moon rising

(l to r) May's Grand Slam threatens 15 Friends of Freckles, while Dreamer's Gift

tries to get out of the way (which makes her look like she's falling over)