{"id":3036,"date":"2013-08-02T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2013-08-01T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T21:43:52","slug":"pony-penning-2013-chincoteague-pony-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/pony-penning-2013-chincoteague-pony-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Pony Penning 2013: Chincoteague Pony Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pony Auction was held on Thursday, and kicked off with a great performance by the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team.<\/p>\n

I stayed throughout the whole auction and was able to photograph all the foals that came through.<\/p>\n

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Prices ranged from about $600 – $2,500 for the foals that you were able to take home, but the buybacks always seem to go the highest.<\/p>\n

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The foals that are marked as buybacks can be purchased at the auction but they get to go back to Assateague to live out the rest of their days as a wild pony. So essentially you are making a donation to the fire company and you get the right to name your foal.<\/p>\n

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This year the highest priced foal was a cute little black and white filly that was designated as a buyback.<\/p>\n

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This foal sold for $12,000 and was purchased by a woman for her 80th Birthday. The auction crowd promptly sang her Happy Birthday as she entered the ring to meet her foal.<\/p>\n

Later in the auction there was another foal purchased by a 100 year old woman – who’s dream was to own a pony. Her’s was a buyback foal as well for $10,000.<\/p>\n

Someday I would love to purchase a foal from the auction, but that day was not this year. Regardless it’s always fun to watch the auction as people’s dreams come true!<\/p>\n

Incase you missed it you can read our other posts on the 2013 Pony Penning:
\nBeach Walk\u00a0HERE
\n<\/a>Painting Ponies\u00a0 HERE
\n<\/a>Pony Swim HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

You can check out all the photos from the beach walk, pony swim and auction\u00a0HERE<\/a>. They are also available for purchase!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pony Auction was held on Thursday, and kicked off with a great performance by the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team. I stayed throughout the whole auction and was able to photograph all the foals that came through. Prices ranged from about $600 – $2,500 for the foals that you were able to take home, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[757,43,45,91,815,98,107,948,114,115,116,172,812,204,816,218,261,292,332,379,381,382,398,399,406,412,415,427,430,459,476,493,528,545,546,813,814],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chincoteague","tag-757","tag-assateague","tag-auction","tag-buy-back","tag-buyback","tag-carnival","tag-chesapeake-boomerang","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-minnow","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-chincoteague-pony-center","tag-donation","tag-epic","tag-farm","tag-fireman","tag-foal","tag-horse","tag-kyley-diluigi","tag-misty-of-chincoteague","tag-painting","tag-painting-horse","tag-painting-pony","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-pony","tag-pony-penning","tag-pony-swim","tag-purchase","tag-rain","tag-saltwater-cowboys","tag-slack-tide","tag-storm","tag-thunder","tag-trick-horse","tag-trick-pony","tag-wet","tag-wild-pony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-MY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}