Summary

Chapter 1

A Spanish Galleon is making its way across the ocean from Peru carrying horses on board. The captain of the ship doesn’t like the horses and feels like they are trouble. Sensing the impending storm the horses become agitated. The storm hits and the boat crashes onto the shores of Assateague beach. In the water all the men drown, pulled down by the gale. As quickly as the storm comes, the storm goes. Sensing the shoreline the ponies make it to the beach and collapse exhausted onto the island.

Chapter 2

Once on land the horses realize they are not bound to anything, they are free. Immediately they set off for food, the leader of the herd moving them in a familiar yet unfamiliar direction as if he had been there before. They all stop in a meadow to eat the salty...