What can you tell me about my girl’s pedigree?
Some well-regarded names there - notably Grange Finn Sparrow who has produced A LOT of great eventing ponies, including recently Will ya Love Me and Nio’s Sparrow. Hayselden Perseus is an English import who tends to produce wonderful temperaments and some funky colors. Fiddler’s Glory Boy himself was a talented driving pony.
Hopefully more Connemara folks will chime in - that’s about all I know. GAEventer???
How large is your pony? What color? What do you do with her? Picture?
My Belle (Morning Glory’s Belle Fille) is a daughter of Fiddler’s Glory Boy (out of a TB mare ). She is a FABULOUS jumper. She is vey catty and turns on a dime. She LOVES cross country. She would be good at dressage if she didn’t get so tense. Her movement is too high to be successful as a hunter. She is also very opinionated.
Fiddler’s Gory Boy was a successful pony jumper in Puerto Rico (where Pony Jumpers jump HIGHER than in the US) and went on to be successful driving pony with Muffy Seaton.
*Grange Finn Sparrow was very successful as a jumper, competing against full sized horses in both Ireland and the US. While I do not think he evented himself, he has gotten lot of successful eventers.
TRE AWAIN DEVALERA has a reputation for producing good dressage movement.
Don’t know much about what Haysden Pperseus throws, but I have only heard good things about him.
She has a nice pedigree, what are you doing with her?
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Some well-regarded names there - notably Grange Finn Sparrow who has produced A LOT of great eventing ponies, including recently Will ya Love Me and Nio’s Sparrow. Hayselden Perseus is an English import who tends to produce wonderful temperaments and some funky colors. Fiddler’s Glory Boy himself was a talented driving pony.
Hopefully more Connemara folks will chime in - that’s about all I know. GAEventer???
How large is your pony? What color? What do you do with her? Picture?[/QUOTE]
Correction, Fiddler’s Glory Boy was a great pony jumper that was sold on (unfortunately for the USA) to Puerto Rico. His son, Morning Glory’s Ilyushin is a driving pony stallion that is currently standing in Canada with Muskoka Lakes Connemaras.
Your mare has an interesting pedigree. Good blend of English, American and Irish lines. And no repeats until the fifth generation, which is nice because so many of the ponies are their own Uncle, Brother and Cousin!
Hayselden Perseus was imported from England as a youngster (weanling or yearling) with Hayselden Persephone. Persephone shares the same sire as Perseus; she has produced some very nice ponies herself including approved stallions, Blue Ridge Monroe and Blue Ridge Jefferson. Both Perseus & Persephone throw great temperaments. Perseus did hunters, driving, foxhunting, and was ridden by children. He’s getting up there in age, I’m not sure if he’s sired any foals for the last few years.
*Grange Finn Sparrow has sired numerous Advanced level eventers including Sparrow’s Nio, Wil’Ya Love Me, Windswept, Galway Blazer, Meadow Sparrow, and other upper level contenders, Sparrow’s Owen, Briar Fox Mundungus, Nordic Sparrowhawke, Grange Finn Sparrow’s Boy, and Sparrow Cappuccino. To name a few…
I have owned, or leased, seven of his offspring. They are pretty exceptional, and I’ve based my breeding program off of them. You can see them on my website below.
Your mare’s bloodlines are very desirable. Grange did not leave any (registered) purebred sons in the USA. Fiddler’s Glory Boy was exported, Fiddler’s Sparrow MacDaire was gelded, Jack Sparrow’s dam was never registered, and Gideon Goodheart (owned by Kim Walnes) is a halfbred.
There are two purebred daughters of breeding age, one of which I just acquired on breeding lease, her owner I are going to do foal shares, and the other is not able to be bred due to health issues.
Through her granddam Tullymor’s Lizzie Maclynch, you’ve got good old USA lines. The Tullymor ponies can be a bit close in pedigree, but still produce very nice performance ponies with great type. The Tre Awain line has produced some superb performance ponies including TA Develara and TA Ginger Blue and TA Roderick O’Connor sired some Adv/Int level eventers back in the day. I believe one was short listed for the Olympics in the 70’s or 80’s.
What are you doing with your mare?
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I do not know much about connemara bloodlines, but I used to ride Fiddler’s Glory Boy (barn name “Shadow”) for the owners when I was a junior and he was a 5 year old in Virginia. He was a sweet boy and exceptionally quiet & easy for a young stallion. I showed him a bit in some connemara breed and local hunter shows, and I remember him always being a complete gentleman. He was very green but needed no prep and blended right in with the more seasoned geldings. At home he would be turned out with other horses (including his pony mares) and was still easy for me to catch/tack up/ turn out by myself. In retrospect, he really had a super temperment. He was also GREAT jumper, very brave and scopey, which I was told was not surprising, as his sire was a freaky-talented jumper in Ireland. He was more of a push ride, but very athletic and willing to work. They had a lot of his babies on the farm, all too young to be undersaddle, but all were adorable and very friendly. I liked him quite a bit!
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I’m also coming late to this discussion but I just got papers on the horse I’ve had for almost two years. So I’m just starting research on this. These posts have given me quite a bit of information. Thanks to all of you. One of the post above states there Grange did not leave any registered purebred sons. My boy, Harris Tweed, is a purebred so there’s at least one out there. Too bad he’s gelded, but he’s a really terrific hunter with a super temperament, and a work ethic that just won’t quit. He’s just a hair above 15hh and is very sturdy and stout. His sire is Fiddlers Sparrow Macdaile and his dam is Dark Horse Evening Grace, both purebred Connemaras. He was born in 2002. Any other information would be really appreciated.
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That’s so cool wentworth that you rode Glory Boy. I guess that was before he left for Puerto Rico? My Mirage is also more of a push ride and sounds so much like her sire - she also looks a lot like him but she did great in the hunter ring with my daughter thanks to a flatter more daisy-cutter movement from her Welsh/TB dam. She’s 20 now and I just moved her to eastern NC where we are now living. Still in great shape and riding her several times a week.
Is there a reason that you are resurrecting a 7 year old thread rather than starting a new one with a specific question, or do you just want to tell everyone that your trainer has a “stud prospect” by a “terribly marketed backyard pet with no show record” grandson that is being started under saddle?
I am asking sincerely, I don’t understand your reasoning.
