Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, July 16, 1993 TAG: 9307160076
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: KENNETT SQUARE, PA. LENGTH: Medium
Stormy, foal of the famous Misty of Chincoteague, had been in the large-animal facility of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine since July 7.
Dr. Julie Anderson, one of Stormy's two veterinarians, said a very large and locally aggressive tumor was removed from her udder. There is no evidence that the disease spread to other parts of the body, she said.
"Her short-term prognosis for survival is good," Anderson said. "There is still a chance it could come back."
Bar Keystone Stables owner Kathy Line took Stormy back to Waynesboro where the 31-year-old pony has lived for six years. Stormy's owner, Michael Pryor, was in the Washington County Hospital in Maryland on Thursday and unable to take her back to Waynesboro himself.
"Stormy, Foal of Misty" was the second book in Marguerite Henry's series about the wild ponies who live on Assateague Island off the Atlantic coast in Virginia and are rounded up for a swim to Chincoteague Island once a year for a fire company auction. "Misty of Chincoteague" was the first book in the series.
Line said she and her husband, Gerald, have taken Stormy back to Chincoteague every year at auction time and will do so again this year. Stormy has never participated in the swim because she was born on Chincoteague, she said.
The Bar Keystone Stables also is home to Windy, another of Misty's foals, and Windstorm, Stormy's great-granddaughter.
by CNB