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The pony swim occurs on Wednesday between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m., depending on slack tide. [10] [22] The exact time of the swim is announced the day before the swim. [12] It lasts approximately three-five minutes. [9] [23] Approximately 40,000 people gather on the shores to watch the swim from Veterans Memorial Park or Pony Swim Lane.
From 2020 to 2021, the Chincoteague annual pony auction was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pony swim was cancelled for the first time since World War II. [20] The 2020 online auction raised $388,000 from the sale of 68 ponies; and in the 2021 online auction, 75 ponies, including 10 buybacks, were auctioned for $416,950.
Thousands of people gathered in Virginia to watch the Chincoteague wild ponies make their annual swim across the Assateague Channel, the 99th year of the popular tradition. The ponies made the ...
On the last Wednesday in July, the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department conducts the annual Wild Pony Swim as part of Pony Penning.Salt Water Cowboys round up wild Chincoteague Ponies from Assateague Island and drive them across the Assateague Channel to Veteran's Memorial Park on Chincoteague Island. [2]
Spectators watched wild ponies come ashore from the Assateague Channel during the annual pony swim event from Assateague Island to Chincoteague on Wednesday in Chincoteague, Virginia. The wild ...
More than 200 ponies swam from Assateague Island to neighboring Chincoteague Island in the 92nd Annual Chincoteague Pony Swim event in Virginia.
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 ...
Spectators gathered on the eastern shores of Virginia early Wednesday, July 27, to watch wild ponies swim across the Assateague Channel as the annual Pony Swim event returned after a two-year ...