Posted By Admin on November 4, 2008

Hitching a Ride

When the Chincoteague ponies were driven into the corrals during the spring roundup last Friday and Saturday this newborn foal was perhaps the only one that got a ride.

Thanks to cowboy Brian Lewis of Snow Hill, Maryland, this little one arrived safely after not quite being able to keep up as the ponies were driven in from the range by the world famous saltwater cowboys.

Lewis said his dad, David, a cowboy for 45 years, picked up the struggling pony and handed it up to him. When he arrived at the corral, Lewis, lowered the pony to Bryan Harris, another cowboy, who carried him into the corral on Beach Road where he soon found his mom.

The cowboys said they thought he was about two weeks old and weighed about 65 pounds. “He just got tired and got mixed up on the way in,” said Lewis. “He just sat across my saddle, looking around,” said Brian who works for Worcester County. Once in the corrals, the ponies had an appointment with their vet, Dr. Charlie Cameron.

Dr. Cameron drew blood for testing, squirted liquid medicine down their throats and implanted microchips into the shoulders of about 25 ponies born since last summer. The next roundup will take place in July at the annual Pony Penning, an event that draws as many as 40,000 visitors to Chincoteague.

Photo credits:
Pony on horseback, by Raven Sobel, a student at Arcadia Middle School.
Other two photos by Robert Boswell for www.wildponytales.info

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