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
Ashfield Carna
Ashfield Carna is a grey eight year old Connemara gelding. He was bred in Ireland by Mr Jimmy Jones. His sire is Granard Storm and
11/10/2025
Erin Casco Bay
Puffing up to look much bigger than his 15.1 hands, Erin Casco Bay competed in dressage to Prix St. Georges level. A superb mover he
11/10/2025
Black Points Tilly Go Bragh
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
11/10/2025
Custusha’s Cashel Rock
Rocky won both the An Tostal and Camlin Trophies in his distinguished career and earned gold medallions from the American Connemara Pony Society in Hunter,
11/10/2025
Hideaway’s Erin Go Bragh
To watch Hideaway’s Erin Go Bragh in the dressage ring, is to marvel that this supple, elegant performer is any relation to the shaggy ponies
11/10/2025
The Grasshopper
“Grasshopper was neither very big nor very handsome, but such was his toughness, mentally and physically, that he never started an international event in which
11/10/2025
Aladdin
Winner of the An Tostal Trophy, 1988 by Catherine Mack (article from the American Connemara magazine) Aladdin is the King Arthur of the Pony World.
11/10/2025
2025 Sporthorse COTY: No May Moon
The 2025 Connemara Sport Horse Winner is No May Moon who is an 11 year old mare by Catherston Dazzler x Ebony Moon who is
11/04/2025
Pasture Management
Attendees to the ACPS National Meeting of 2025 were able to attend a lecture given by UMASS Amherst Agriculture Professor, Dr Masoud Hashemi. The lecture
10/27/2025
Area VIII Starter Champions – Joshlyn Hernandez and Kynymont Indelibly Irish
United States Eventing Association, September 9, 2025By Lindsay Berreth The USEA Area VIII Championships took place alongside the Kentucky Classique Horse Trials in Lexington, Kentucky,
09/17/2025
All In The Family: Grandparents’ Orphan Foal Grows Into Amateur’s First Advanced Partner
The Chronicle of the Horse, September 15, 2025by Christina Keim In late May 2016, Margo Goldfarb stopped at Greenwood Farm in Middlebrook, Virginia, for a
09/17/2025
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