The 10 BuyBacks For 2021 - And An Orphaned Maryland Foal Joins the CVFC Herd

 The CVFC Pony Committee has chosen the ten foals - all fillies - designated as BuyBacks for this year's Chincoteague Pony Auction.  I'll list them in numerical order of birth, date of birth, coat color, and sire and dam.  If you plan on buying a pony, or purchasing a BuyBack, you must be registered with the on-line company's website.  https://internethorseauctions.com/auction.php?aucid=425    Read all of the information and rules.  -  And, remember that designated BuyBacks are bringing the highest bids these days.
2021 BuyBack Fillies
 
9.    11 April    chestnut     Wild Thing - Tuleta Star

10.     12 April     chestnut pinto     Puzzle (Archer's Gambit) - Scotty ET

14.     19 April   chestnut pinto     Surfer's Riptide - Sonny's Legacy

18.     24 April    palomino pinto     Don Leonard Stud II -  WH Sundance*  (*Misty descendant)

38.     9 May     bay pinto     Hoppy (Effie's Poppa Bear) - Mary Read

49.     17 May     bay pinto     Wild Thing - Thetis

52.     21 May     black pinto     Ace (Ace's Black Tie Affair) - Black Pearl


67.     18 June     buckskin pinto     -unknown- - Molly's Rosebud

71.    3 July     buckskin pinto      Hoppy - Tiger Lily (aka Waterbaby)

74.      8 July      buckskin     Hoppy - Liz's Serenity


    On 3 April, the 4-year-old mare named Moonshadow - she was born on 21 August 2017 during a lunar eclipse - gave birth to a chestnut filly with a blaze on the Maryland end of Assateague.  On, or very near 5 July, both the mare and foal were struck by a car, probably on Bayberry Road.  The mare was found dead the morning of July 7, on the beach, with her filly nuzzling her body.  On July 12, it was decided that the filly, who would have continued nursing for at least another 3 months, would be transferred from the National Park Service in Maryland (where the ponies are designated as wildlife and receive no vet care) to the CVFC herd in Virginia, where she would receive veterinary care and supplemental feed as an orphaned foal.
   The pony fans in Maryland have been calling the filly "Moonbeam."  She had a 50% chance of survival without her dam in Maryland; she has a 90 to 100% chance of survival in Virginia.  She is currently being tended to at the Carnival Grounds on south Main Street on Chincoteague.  There, she has the company of a colt and his older mother.  They are playing together and she is eating well.  She will not be sold and will be incorporated into the regular herds on the CNWR.  She will grow up with the 10 fillies pictured above, who are her age.
Moonbeam, nearest to camera, and Checkers' colt at the
CVFC Carnival Grounds

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