Connemara stallions in US/Canada

[jrscomet]

I’m hoping that you guys can point out a stallion that I am not thinking of or isn’t advertised as often.

I thought I had all my 2018 breeding plans decided, but I have one more mare to book. I am looking for shipped cooled semen only and would prefer to stay with lines that produce nice jumpers. Nothing under 14hands and preferably non bays (my life is over run with bays and black/white tobianos :ambivalence: )

That being said I have a 2017 colt (love him to death) and 2 more on the way from Fiontar Mac Tire, so he’s out. Also already have a mare booked to Blue Rock Fintan.

What stallions can you recommend? Note: This will be for a half-bred foal.

Thank you!

[poltroon]

Redbud Blue Moon has been making some lovely halfbred babies out here. He is 14.3 and black and has made chestnut babies too.

https://goodpony.net/r-blue-moon-or-connemara-stallion-or-redbud-ranch

[Katona]

Muskoka Lakes is the breeder I always think of, but you look well versed in them. Are Elphin Mountain still active?

[LetItBe]

I love my W.H. Topgun mare. There’s several stallions I’ve got in the back of my mind for the if I ever wanted to breed her scenario. My no go color is grey though. I do like R Blue Moon who is already mention.

[GoodThingsTakeTime13]

Jump 4 Joy - Tonya Cummins I think her name is.Jump 4 Joy Training Centre - Home | Facebook

[GoodTimes]

I was going to suggest Fiontar Mac Tire but I see you’ve already discovered him. Janet has always seemed down to earth, perhaps she would be able to suggest a different stallion for you?

The Get Smart stud linked above is cute. He looks a little heavier then Finn or Redbud Blue Moon though.

[jrscomet]

I get the impression that Elphin Mountain does not breed anymore.

Blue Moon is on the list, but he is still very young so hard to tell what he will be like

I have a W.H. Top Gun foal by the mare I am looking to breed. I absolutely love him, he turned 6 in Oct. Would love to breed to him again someday, but I know I’ll want to keep the foal. Not an option right now, lol.

I have contacted Tonya Cummins about Get Smart. Waiting for video to come through.

My other top choice is TBS Declan Pondi. Any thoughts on progeny from these lines?

[MKV]

I’m not a Connemara person or a breeder, but have you considered Tre Awain Goldsmith? A gelding by him competes in eventing in my area. He’s always fun to watch.

http://www.cadyodalyfarm.net/stallion.html

[bdj]

OP, on the Jump4Joy Facebook page, there was a link to this Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2190988637792106/?hc_ref=ARQzq4sSXLydjCOUT1jR9I6YaB1ATQyGpv6wwLCI3RH7_rZscwlmqt3jnvqvlnjL914
If you scroll down a bit, there’s a link to “2018 Connemara Stallion List”.
I’m no help on the bloodlines - I just think Connemaras are nifty.

[Heinz_57]

I have the stallion issue floating around here somewhere that has even MORE listed, but in the most recent ACPS edition, these guys all have ads for stud:

Foothills Field Marshall ( I know you said no bays, buuuut…)
*Castle Monarch (grey)
Aluinn Durango (bay)
*Fernville Matchmaker (grey)
Rattle N Snap Laddie Boy (dun)
*Smaragaid Cliff (brown)
WH Topgun (dun)
Ballencrieff’s Brogan (grey)
Erin Terra’s Dream On (bay)
Balmullo’s Gallagher (buckskin)
Irish Park’s Belfast Bonfire (grey)
JEF Sir Lancelot (black)
Bear Creek’s Coragh Patrick
Heaven’s Ridge Tiarnan Donal
Skyview’s Triton
HK’s Danny Boy

Some of these are on the list bdj mentioned as well. There is also a grey stallion near(ish) to me, Potiquimi Keely Shay, who competes in eventing successfully. And if you’re good with frozen, I believe there are still doses of ArdCeltic Art available. Several of the owners of these guys are COTH’ers, or at least were!

I have a halfbred by JEF Sir Lancelot and I adore her. I have not started her over fences yet, but she’s extremely athletic.

Tre Awain Goldsmith would be one of my top picks, personally.

[Huntin_Pony]

Aluinn Durango is by Aladdin’s Denver and carries on (very successfully) one of the best-moving and best jumping lines we have in the US, JMHO. They are brave and bold but not foolhardy and they can win the dressage. This has always been a line that produces GREAT halfbreds. Ask Winding Down about hers!

[Catoctin]

*TBS Declan Pondi

Declan is quite the foxhunter/whip pony himself. We’re looking forward to a HB by him this year.

https://www.fadetogreyfarm.com/tbs-declan-pondi/

[goodpony]

Happy to answer any questions about Blue (feel free to PM me). His first colt to hit the ground from his first season was USEA/FEH overall high score for all Connemaras or Partbreds (3rd place overall at the championship level). Robin Walker (chairman of the USEA’s Young Committee) said Blue is the IDEAL type for crossing on Thoroughbred mares. He is producing very correct, large, high quality, athletic offspring with exceptional temperaments. His foals are also very marketable of the 5 we bred ourselves only one left and Ive a contract out and pending. My client who offered hers in utero has already sold hers as well.

[MuskokaLakesConnemaras]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p_xNf08y2U8uv3FVCGsiqj3_b04aw1tlN-VxT_RVQ5E/edit?usp=sharing

Hope that works, it is a list of all the stallions available in NA And thank you so very much for choosing Finn Can’t wait to see more babies!

Blue and Smarty (Get Smart) share the same sire, very similar ponies… Smarty competed along side of Finn this year in the Pony Jumpers, so I got to see him first hand.

A pony I really like and would love to use is Tre Awain Goldsmith… loved what I have seen from him! I also really like what I have seen from JEF Sir Lancelot. REALLY nice offspring.

I personally have two more up and coming colts, but they won’t be ready for another year and a half or two years. Both just rising 2 this year. A bay colt out of Belfast Button (Irish Park Belfast Bonfire x Hidewaways Sebastian) by Morning Glorys Ilyushin (Fidders Glory Boy who was by the incomparable Grange Finn Sparrow) and a buckskin I bred and imported from Ireland. He is by Crosskeys Rebel, who is the sire of an Olympic eventer as well as several upper level mounts. Once they are older they will be promoted and shown, but keep them in the back of your mind to keep an eye on in the future

Good luck!

[goodpony]

Wow Blue really is really nothing like his half brother, in fact he takes after his mother. He is both taller and leggier than his sire and his half brother. I owned and stood his sire for 12 years and bred Blue myself. I also own his dam and 2 of his siblings.

I do think typewise Get Smart does lean a bit more to his sire side, shorter legs for sure. They both have VERY different mothers from entirely different breeding. Technically they are “By the Same Sire” and not half brothers.

[MuskokaLakesConnemaras]

Interesting… having watched the videos of your guy and watched Smarty in person, there are many similarities.

[goodpony]

Wow I really dont think so. Maybe because Blue is 2nd generation homebred Its much easier for me to spot the differences. I would encourage you to study the lines a little more closely-because they are quite different in both type and especially conformation. They are most certainly not the same. And from speaking to Tonya myself they do not remotely have the same personality.

[dr_j]

We do not do a lot of outside breeding but still like to suggest our stallion Blue Ridge Monroe. He has a venerable America pedigree being by the highly respected Moxley Duncan - who has produced more performance horses than probably any America Connemara stallion other than Grange FInn Sparrow and Aladdin’s Denver.

Monroe is 14.3 with 9 1/2 inches of bone, which he throws. He is also a Bay roan… you don’t say what color your mare is… Monroe also carries chestnut so depending on your mare -there are several options. He is a fantastic horse- currently schooling FEI and will return to the dressage ring this year - probably at 3rd and 4th. His babies are beyond delightful - out doing their stuff. You can check out his facebook page… let me know if you need help finding video.

https://www.facebook.com/Blue-Ridge-Monroe-946146235398942/

[dr_j]

https://www.facebook.com/946146235398942/videos/1884967771516779/

My favorite recent video clip… Taken just a week or so after starting back in work after most of a year off.

[horsetales]

If you are on FB - mare owners can ask for stallions or browse any advertised https://www.facebook.com/groups/163216064436538/?ref=bookmarks