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The first written description of the pony penning appeared in 1835, and by 1885, the event had become a festival day. The event consisted of two days of horse and sheep roundups on Assateague and Chincoteague Islands. Over time, the sheep population diminished and the pony population grew and eventually sheep penning was halted.
The Pony Penning week returns in full glory after two years of COVID-enforced hiatus. The 97-year Chincoteague tradition includes the Pony Swim on Wednesday and the Pony Auction on Thursday, the ...
The week's events culminate with the return swim of the ponies to Assateague Island on Friday, July 26, with a time to be determined after the swim on Wednesday.
The auction of foals is always a huge part of Pony Penning week, especially with 89 up for bidding this year. Watch along live. Chincoteague Pony Auction 2024: Watch along live as big dreams come true
The Chincoteague pony, also known as the Assateague horse, is a breed of horse that developed, and now lives, within a semi-feral or feral population on Assateague Island in the US states of Virginia and Maryland. The Chincoteague pony is one of the many breeds of feral horses in the United States.
In the Pony Penning, which has been held annually since 1925, horses swim across the shallow water between the islands. At "slack tide" on the Wednesday before the last Thursday of every July, Chincoteague's "Saltwater Cowboys" herd the wild Chincoteague ponies from Assateague Island, across the Assateague Channel, to neighboring Chincoteague ...
A wet day to turn sunny for the beloved tradition. The annual pony penning celebration on Wednesday at Chincoteague's Wildlife Refuge will draw a huge crowd of pony lovers to brave the wet and ...
PONY Baseball and Softball is a non-profit organization with headquarters in Washington, Pennsylvania. Started in 1951, [ 2 ] PONY organizes youth baseball and softball leagues and tournaments, as over 500,000 players annually play PONY in over 4,000 leagues throughout the United States and over 40 countries world-wide.