Raisin’ Hell In Cowboy Boots

Hey! My name is Abby! My Arabian mare is Czar, who I’ve owned since August 8th, 2011. Ace 1987- October 16, 2018. Joined us November 29, 2015. Joe is my Miniature horse, arrived October 29, 2018. Jay is my Arabian/Lipizzaner gelding, purchased December 1, 2025.

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Immi in his element

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"Cinco" Arabian x paint horse cross gelding (liver chestnut sabino tobiano)

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Pole is lava

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A mother Chincoteague pony nuzzling her newborn foal on Assateague Island. 

Goran Anastasovski

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Photo by Helen Peppe, Author and Photographer

Cowboy Magic

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A very good western pony

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Getting creative with my old ribbons.

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Fino

Resuelto-J x Latina IV

Andalusian, Stallion

Born 1998

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Fleur - 2010 mare by Florencio.

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attack on @commonfinch >:)

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Voodoo (1954-1976) was a striking black pinto wild Chincoteague pony stallion with had a sun-bleached mane and a pink nose. At his peak, Voodoo had the largest herd on Assateague with 26 members. He was likely the stallion the cowboys called the Black Duck Drain Horse.

Voodoo even appears in the Misty movie! The movie was filmed in 1960, and it appears the crew used his herd as the one Paul and Grandpa Beebe round up.

Voodoo was a particular favorite of Dr. Ronald Keiper. Keiper, a professor at Pennsylvania State at Mont Alto, studied the behavior and ecology of the wild pony herds on the Maryland and Virginia sides of Assateague for several years, starting in 1975.

Keiper was the first person to systemically study the herds and keep track of individual ponies, giving each band and pony a letter designation and noting their movement and breeding. He and his wife also gave several remarkable ponies nicknames.

As part of his research, he got a front row seat for the fights, drama, and mundane lives of wild ponies like Voodoo.

In January 1977, Keiper discovered Voodoo's remains.

"I found the body of a friend," he wrote in his newspaper column.

According to Keiper, Voodoo was 22 when he died—fairly old age for a wild pony.

This photo was taken by Joseph R. Spies and featured in his book Wild Ponies of Chincoteague, which includes about a hundred great photographs taken from 1967 to 1977. Several of them are of Voodoo!

- Chincoteague Pony History

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Margaret Laird and baby burro, New Mexico Date: circa 1900? Negative Number 007613

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Ready to enter the ring

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Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona

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