The Chincoteague Pony Swim is an annual weeklong carnival celebrating its centennial this year, when Virginia's wild ponies ...

You can lead a pony to water — and it might just swim. Just ask the folks who've attended the Chincoteague Island Pony Swim sometime in the past 98 years.

Thousands descend on a small island town every year on the Eastern Shore of Virginia for the annual Chincoteague Island Pony Swim. Wild ponies are corralled across the Assateague Channel.

A proverb says that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. But if you lead a pony to the water in the island town of Chincoteague, Virginia, you might see it swim. For the ...

You can lead a pony to water — and it might just swim. Just ask the folks who've attended the Chincoteague Island Pony Swim sometime in the past 98 years.

You can lead a pony to water — and it might just swim. Just ask the folks who've attended the Chincoteague Island Pony Swim sometime in the past 98 years.

You can lead a pony to water — and it might just swim. Just ask the folks who've attended the Chincoteague Island Pony Swim sometime in the past 98 years.

You can lead a pony to water — and it might just swim. Just ask the folks who've attended the Chincoteague Island Pony Swim sometime in the past 98 years.

You can lead a pony to water — and it might just swim. Just ask the folks who've attended the Chincoteague Island Pony Swim sometime in the past 98 years.

You can lead a pony to water — and it might just swim. Just ask the folks who've attended the Chincoteague Island Pony Swim sometime in the past 98 years.