2024 Halfbred COTY: Ridgetop Pirate Blue
The ACPS Halfbred of the Year for 2024 is Ridgetop Pirate Blue, by Landgate Bluebeard x Queen Daisy (TB). He was bred by Marynell and
11/09/2024
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2025 Camlin Performance: Paradox Pippin
The ACPS Camlin Award goes to a purebred Connemara gelding or mare who has had a career of outstanding achievement, demonstrating accomplishment and durability. The
11/06/2024
11/06/2024
2025 Tooreen Laddie: Landgate Bluebeard
Landgate Bluebeard (*Rocky x Landgate Singing Bird by Bob White) who is now 31 years old is the 2025 winner of the Tooreen Laddie Award.
10/24/2024
10/14/2024
Road to the AEC: Margo Goldfarb Balances Graduate School and Intermediate Eventing With Her Connemara Cross (useventing.com)
Enjoy this lovely article about Margo and her Connemara/TB Cross, Ridgetop Blue Pirate as they head to the USEA American Eventing Championships. Article from useventing.com
08/20/2024
ACPS Annual Meeting 2024
Save the Date: October 17 to October 20, 2024 Venue info: World Equestrian Center, Ocala, Florida Hotel info: Riding Academy Hotel Activities: More info to
02/17/2024
Marynell Eyles
The Eyles family seems to have been chosen by the Connemara breed for a lifetime of devotion. When a breed of equine suits your family’s
12/01/2020
Laura Balding
In the late 50’s our Mother discovered Connemara Ponies. My best mount at the time was a 17.3hh Thoroughbred, called Happy Landing. I took him
12/01/2020
Inspections in the United States
Connemara ponies were first brought to the United States in the 1950’s, primarily as children’s riding ponies. The American Connemara Pony Society (ACPS) was formed
11/30/2020
The First Inspections
There have been ponies in Connemara since at least 1399, the date of the first written account. They have been described over the centuries in
11/30/2020
Joan Webster
I “met” my first Connemara in 1974—a purebred Connemara stallion, ridden by an eight-year-old girl in a low-key, rural, children’s schooling show! It was a
07/29/2020
Liz Platais
I became a lifetime member of the ACPS in 1973. I traveled extensively through Europe, England, and Ireland with my mother, Rachel Page Elliott, author
07/29/2020
Donna Duckworth
I began raising connemaras over 35 years ago when a 2-year-old Arabian gelding (sold to her by a very aggressive salesperson who, try as Donna
07/29/2020
Caroline Nesbitt
I began my love affair with Connemaras at the age of nine, from photos in English pony books whose breed descriptions routinely featured Terese of
07/29/2020
2019 Achievement Awards
Competitive In-Hand Certificate Cobblestone Sandpiper (*Smaragaid Cliff x Four Loch’s Perfect Storm) O: Pat Ashworth Hillcreek Celtic Bug (*ArdCeltic Art x Tre Awain Cashela Bay)
12/31/2019
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