Welcome to the American Connemara Pony Society Web Site

Welcome to the ACPS Web Site!

Weekly News! Do you have news about your Connemara that you would like to share with other ACPS members? News from all over the world is welcome. Email Donna Duckworth with the details and any photos to connemaras@windstream.net. Show results, results of inspections, new foals or unusual adventures especially welcome! The sire and dam of any ponies should be included. Please note that any professional photos must be accompanied by a photographer's release before they can be used.

Eatonton, GA: Rai Pullen reports that “on Jan.16th the Athens Area Hunter-Jumper Association banquet was held and Caraway Charlotte (Maplehurst Micheal MacDaire X *Wensum Plum [by Hearnsbrook Fastnet]) was honored with MANY awards. ‘Lottie’ carried two riders, Grace Bridges and Lily Bridges, through the 2009 show circuit and competed in quite a few divisions. While she didn't stay in all of the divisions for the entire year, she still did well enough in each one to qualify for year end awards: Junior Beginner (9 and under) Champion; Crossrail Equitation-Reserve Champion; Green Rider Equitation-4th; Green Rider Hunter-6th; Green Hunter-Champion; Schooling Hunter-Reserve Champion; and Junior Equitation (12 and under) Champion. A HUGE congrats to both Grace and Lily! Along with all the pretty ribbons, both Grace and Lily won all sorts of fun horsey stuff and Lottie got her second Champion cooler!”

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DO YOU AND/OR YOUR PONIES WANT TO BE PART OF SOMETHING EXCITING???

DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAVE A CONNEMARA, OR CONNEMARAS READY, WILLING AND ABLE TO BE PART OF A PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATION AT THE WORLD EQUESTRIAN GAMES???

IF SO, READ ON……

You may know the ACPS is planning to have a real presence at the World Equestrian Games this year. The WEG will be held at the end of September and will run into the first week of October at the Kentucky Horse Park. This is the happening of a lifetime! The President and Board of Governors, with the support of the Membership, at our Annual meeting last October, voted to sponsor an information booth, plus produce a display of world class performance for an international audience of thousands!!! Seven stalls are available over at least five days (maybe more), with two volunteer entrance passes (rider and groom) per Connemara performing pony. If you have, or know of someone who has a Connemara, ready, willing and able to be part of this performance please let us know! We are auditioning through videos, DVD’s and You Tube clips as many Connemara performances as you can send us, in an effort to identify appropriate candidates to represent our American Connemaras in this most exclusive of venues.

Send your information to Laura Balding

555 Old Wolfrum Rd, St Charles, MO 63304

You may phone or email if you have any questions; laurabalding@aol.com or 314 308 2330.

2010 INSPECTIONS

April 1st-nomination deadline, ACPS inspections
June 6th in conjunction w/REG 4 show, Pinetop Farm, GA
contact-Gloria LaCroix 636.675.0674 /folklorecp@att.net

May 1st- nomination deadline ACPS inspections
June 26th, Galloway Farm, Glastonbury, Ct
July 11th, Windy Isles Farm, Peotone, Il
July 19th, Glenwood Park, Middleburg, Va
contact Gloria LaCroix 636.675.0674 / folklorecp@att.net

June 6th - ACPS inspections in conjunction with
Region 4 show, Pinetop Farm, Thomson,Ga

June 26th - ACPS inspections, Galloway Farm, Glastonbury, Ct.

July 1st - nomination deadline, ACPS inspections, Colorado Springs, Co
contact GLoria LaCroix 636.675.0674 folklorecp@att.net

July 10th - MIDWEST CONNEMARA BREEDERS SHOW,
WINDY ISLES FARM, PEOTONE, IL
contact Martin Fitzgerald,(815)463-6140
rathkenny@aol.com
July 11th - ACPS inspections, in conjunction with the
Midwest Connemara Breeders Show
Windy Isles Farm, Peotone, Il

July 18th - ACPS Inspections in conjunction with the REGION 3
Show, Glenwood Park, Middleburg, Va

Aug. 28th - ACPS Inspections, Latigo Trails Equestrian
Center, Colorado Springs, Co

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Sally Oxnard on Tower Hill's Breeze
and Linda Haines on Blue Ridge
Bluebell playing by the Atlantic Ocean.

I am enjoying the start of another year as ACPS president, and appreciate the vote of confidence given to me by the Board of Governors at the ACPS Annual meeting in Ohio. As other elected officers have said, the other folks are the ones who do the real work, I just try to keep in touch with people.

I have been recruiting more people to staff up the ACPS Committees- Marilyn Cheek has done an excellent job picking up the reins of the Awards committee but Pat Lightbody has resigned from being her assistant. That is a big and hardworking committee, and they ran a wonderful awards ceremony at the BOG meeting in Ohio. Fonda Eigel is chairing the Arbitration committee, Pam Liddell the Bylaws committee, Cathy Blackmon the finance committee, Kathy Sparks and Gloria Lacroix the Inspections committee, Marynell Eyles the Magazine Committee, Susan McConnell the ACPS Foundation, Mary Yeager the Youth Committee, and Joan Ervin and Pam Liddell the Region Chairs. New committee chairs are Karen Vincenzio on the Internet committee, Liz Platais on Nominations, and Janice Meyer on Promotions. Many thanks to Pat Norton White and Linda Haines and Nicole Haas Perin who were those chairs and put in a lot of work. Anne Moe has agreed to chair our new ad hoc Membership committee and will do her usual excellent job. Susan McConnell is also chairing the ad hoc WEG committee with me. The real worker in the society is Marynell Eyles who keeps all the records straight and publishes this magazine and flew around the country to judge countless shows and attend 5 inspections in 2009.