Online Auction Planned To Determine New Foal’s Name

ASSATEAGUE — One wild pony on Assateague has a new name and another foal born just last spring soon will with an online auction for naming rights set for 10 days in December.

The Assateague Island Alliance this week announced N9BFQX will now be called “Bailey” after a 12-year-old Connecticut girl was chosen randomly to attach a new, less formal moniker to the chestnut mare through the AIA’s Name That Horse contest.

The mare’s current designation is taken from an alpha-numeric system put in place by the National Park Service in the mid-1970s to track the lineage and ancestry of the wild horses and identify which sub-herd they belong to and the areas they frequent on the island.
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