One Hundred Chincoteague Pony Foals Born in 2025 (So Far) For the CVFC's 100th Annual Pony Penning and Auction!
In 1925, the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company began their management of the annual Pony Penning that had been taking place on Assateague and Chincoteague Islands in Virginia for over a hundred years. Pony Penning was an annual event when the owners of the livestock, running free on both islands, were rounded up and identified. The stock that the owner did not need in the foreseeable future, was sold off at an agreed upon price, and was usually removed from the islands. It had been a well-known event for many years, with people gathering from the Carolinas, Virginia, Washington D. C., Delmarva, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. When the CVFC began managing Pony Penning, they got county and state permission for a Carnival, set up games and different types of races (boating, swimming and horse and pony), as well as having the Pony Sale. And the CVFC advertised the Carnival and Pony Penning events in newspapers. It became a big event ....