A Love of the Ponies Brings Buyback Babes Together
By Tammy Rickman You never know what can come from a group of ladies standing around, talking with time on their hands. Just ask the Buyback Babes. From across the country, they are trickling into Chincoteague, preparing to attend the roundup, swim and auction during Pony Penning. But they have important business to attend to, too. They will spend their money on several ponies at the auction. It all started in 2001. No one knows the details better than Jean Bonde,...
Horses, Like People have their Bad Days: Trainer Katye Allen
By Robert Boswell Men beware. If you perk up one ear, lick or chew on your lips a little, or watch your mate with only one eye you have given yourself away. You are the submissive type and from here on out you are at the will of your trainer. When Katye Allen steps into the ring to begin training a horse, these are the signs she is looking for. Once she sees them, she knows she has her subject’s attention. Before long, no matter where she moves in the ring, the...
Chincoteague Pony Drill Team Makes it Look Easy
[Show as slideshow] 1234...101112► By Robert Boswell and Kate White It is an hour before show time. But unlike on Broadway, for this show some performers have to be brought in from the paddock out front, manes have to be brushed and braided, and girths tightened so saddles won’t slip. Instead of the dressing room, trips are made back and forth to the tack room, for bridles and blankets. And by the way, don’t forget the bug spray. Chincoteague ponies...
How One Family Came to Call Chincoteague Home
Thousands of families come to visit Chincoteague and Assateague Islands. Few of them, though, have packed up and moved here and so quickly began calling this little seaside part of Virginia home. Tammy Rickman and her husband, Lee, did though and with their children have gotten into school and community activities, fished from our waters, explored hiking trails and woodlands and seem to know every shop on Chincoteague streets. Tammy, who teaches special education in...
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