Comments on: How 500 horses get to Mackinac Island each spring https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/how-500-horses-get-to-mackinac-island-each-spring/ Sun, 28 May 2023 12:18:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/how-500-horses-get-to-mackinac-island-each-spring/#comment-1414178 Sun, 28 May 2023 12:18:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=95054#comment-1414178 97th Annual Pony Swim & Auction:
Chincoteague Pony Swim – July 27, 2022
https://youtu.be/o5fP3U7fVQw
6:41

“On the last Wednesday before the last Thursday in July, the wild Chincoteague Ponies are herded across the Assateague Channel in order to auction the foals to maintain the herd size at 150 adult ponies.”

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/how-500-horses-get-to-mackinac-island-each-spring/#comment-1414143 Sun, 28 May 2023 00:52:32 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=95054#comment-1414143 Col-
You’re thinking of the “Chincoteague Pony Swim,” where the NPS forces the horses to swim across a channel every year, then auctions off the ponies above the number they determine the Island can support.

https://www.assateagueisland.com/ponyswim/ponyswim.htm

]]> By: Bugs Cawfey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/how-500-horses-get-to-mackinac-island-each-spring/#comment-1414031 Sat, 27 May 2023 16:12:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=95054#comment-1414031 End of the clip, that’s why the trucker’s union is called teamsters. Those who control a team of horses.

]]> By: Shadow Merchant https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/how-500-horses-get-to-mackinac-island-each-spring/#comment-1414029 Sat, 27 May 2023 15:56:49 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=95054#comment-1414029 @Col Beausabre: “So what did the horses do before there was a park? Winter over on the island like nature intended? I thought the NPS was trying not to interfere with nature. Silly me”

These are working draft and saddle horses that carry goods and people around the island, in place of cars and trucks. There were no horses on the island before they were brought out there for this purpose, and they were never allowed to wander around like wild horses. They all live in corrals and livery stables when they are not hauling wagons or carrying riders..

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/how-500-horses-get-to-mackinac-island-each-spring/#comment-1414028 Sat, 27 May 2023 15:50:08 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=95054#comment-1414028 So what did the horses do before there was a park? Winter over on the island like nature intended? I thought the NPS was trying not to interfere with nature. Silly me

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/how-500-horses-get-to-mackinac-island-each-spring/#comment-1414013 Sat, 27 May 2023 11:35:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=95054#comment-1414013 MGM Presents: James A. Fitzpatrick’s Travel Talks
Mackinac Island (1944)
https://youtu.be/q-jn127ea6Q
9:29

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