2025 Purebred COTY: Windy Hollow Lilia
The purebred Connemara of the year for 2025 is a pony who has had a great year representing the Connemara breed. This year the award
11/14/2023
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2025 An Tostal: Foothill’s Field Marshall
The ACPS An Tostal Award goes to a Connemara stallion with a career of outstanding performance, both competitive and non competitive, while promoting the Connemara
10/24/2023
2025 Hall of Fame Broodmare Hideaway Bay
Hideaway Bay was a 14.1 bay mare born at Hideaway Farms in Geneseo NY in 1970. She later moved to New Melle, MO to Kerrymor Farms and the
10/24/2023
Melanoma Research
Ongoing research at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, led by Dr. Carrie Finno and outgoing director Dr. Alain Theon is currently being run
10/24/2023
Melanoma Myths
9 Equine Melanoma Myths Busted 80% of gray horses over the age of 15 will develop equine melanoma lesions, according to the melanoma research team
10/20/2023
Cherish the Ladies – Zoom Webinar
The American Connemara Pony Society (ACPS) and the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) are inviting you to a Zoom Webinar presentation. “Cherish the Ladies,” presented
10/02/2023
Connemara Pony Breeders Society
August 17, 2023, Clifden, County Galway, Ireland In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Connemara Pony Breeders Society, ACPS President, Linda Haines, presented a
09/18/2023
US Equestrian National Youth Sportsman’s Award – Applications are Open
The US Equestrian National Youth Sportsman’s Award deadlines associated with the grant program are approaching.
06/05/2023
Aluinn Wyatt at the USA Working Equitation Licensed Shows
Aluinn Wyatt, (HK’s Danny Boy X Alladin’s Star Song) 15 year old gelding 14.1 h, had an amazing show season showing at the USA Working
02/24/2023
Connemara Stallion Coud’Poker Tartifume Getting National Attention as 2022 USEA Pony of the Year
Miller is Having a Blast With 2022 SmartPak USEA Pony of the Year Coud’Poker. After Donna Miller lost her beloved Connemara stallion Ardceltic Art in
02/23/2023
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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