He certainly doesn’t have Misty’s coloring, but it is exciting that the herd will now contain her DNA. His hide is white except for his head and rump which are jet black. Beach Boy looks nothing like his predecessor, Misty. Beach Boy, foaled in 2015, is the first Pony to introduce Misty’s DNA into the herd. This time somebody was selling a colt that happens to be a Misty descendant. The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department does not usually add horses to the herd, despite offers of ponies in need of re-homing, but last year they made an exception. Each time she put her large mouth near my hand I panicked and dropped the treat! Sorry, Misty III!Īs of 2015, the Pony Center owns all but one of Misty’s descendants in Chincoteague. Turns out I’m not very adept at giving a treat to a horse. Her handler told us she looks like Misty because of her palomino tan and white coloring. Outside the library we met another of Misty’s great-great-granddaughters, Misty III. Misty’s great-great-granddaughter Morning Glory is trailered into the downtown twice a week in the afternoons.

The center carts her descendants into the downtown for tourists to feed and pet. Today Misty’s descendants still live in captivity at the Pony Center, the Beebe ranch is long gone. It is thus that Misty’s descendants continued to live in Chincoteague, but in captivity rather than as part of the feral herd of Assateague Island. After the book tour, Henry returned with Misty to Chincoteague where she was able to birth her first foal, Stormy. Beebe relented, and Misty not only became Henry’s muse, but book tour companion as well. Henry met Misty at the Beebe ranch and begged Mr. Marguerite Henry did use the real names of Misty and her mother Phantom, as well as the very real traditions of the annual pony penning and auction. She was born in captivity at the Beebe ranch to two horses that also lived in captivity.

Misty of Chincoteague was never part of the wild herd of Chincoteague Ponies. The truth about Misty of Chincoteague is…

Phantom misty of chincoteague