When it comes to cross country, Tilly, a Connemara/Thoroughbred cross, is all business. Under the guidance of World Equestrian Games Team Gold Medal winner, John Williams, this 15.2 hand powerhouse mare had a meteoric rise, leaping from Training to Intermediate in just ten months and finished 2nd in her first 3-day event at the Preliminary level.
Tilly earned honors that include USCTA Preliminary Horse of the Year, the AHSA Zone 2 Intermediate Championship, the USCTA Connemara of the Year (with her sire, Hideaway’s Erin Go Bragh), and the AHSA/ACPS Joan R. McKenna Trophy for excelling in Combined Training at both the Preliminary and Intermediate levels. She was Reserve Champion at the Advanced level in the Mid-Atlantic series in 1998, National Intermediate Reserve Champion in 1996 and was complimented along with her rider, by Captain Mark Phillips for a brilliant cross-country round at the Rolex Kentucky CCI*** in 1997.
