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Showcasing the future of Sportponies
for breeders, competitors and enthusiasts!

We have all known over our lifetimes many wonderful ponies who, in their lifetime, have taken our oldest child to pony hunter stardom, then awarded our best friend’s son a finals ribbon at Pony Club Jumper Nationals, taught our youngest child good horsemanship on a cross country course and, once sadly outgrown, have gone on to become a Combined Driving expert. These ponies can pinch hit on a second’s notice in Polocrosse, become an instant substitute on a Regional Junior Dressage Team, and handle the duties required of a visiting aunt’s Sunday afternoon mount. Occasionally, despite their heritage, they do not fit in conventional standards for “pony” measurement. They do or do not have an easily recognizable pedigree, and in many instances are crossbred, devoid of any “Breed Registry accolades”. They excel in every aspect of pony sport, even outshining their larger counterparts in open competition. They are the mount of choice for children and small adults at the lowest and highest levels. These super versatile, incredible individuals have long deserved this recognition for their expertise.

Breeders across the nation have banded together to support and promote the exclusive and distinctive Sportpony types (registered and un-registered, crossbred and purebred) produced in North America, whose nobility, correctness, movement, scope, and character allow them the abilities necessary to excel at high levels of Dressage, Hunter/Jumper, Eventing, Driving.

Laurie said it best:
" God wanted to jump big, solid fences, so he called upon the expert."

Rest In Peace
TEDDY O'CONNOR

our heartfelt condolences to
Wynn Norman and Karen O'Connor who loved him best
and to everyone whose lives he touched.

We will never forget him or the inspiration he gave us all.

New ARP Forum at
The Chronicle Of My Horse

The perfect place to showcase your own sportponies!
Post brags, photos, videos and stories, and address issues and concerns!


PHOTO FEATURE
CONTEST

This fun photo of Bal Dur Lord Solomon playing in the water
was submitted by his owner Samantha Ellis of Secret Ambition Stables

Send us the most dramatic, cutest, most fun, most athletic photos of your sportponies of all ages at work and play! Each month we will select a "star" to be featured on our homepage with your story!!! These photos will ALL go into a photo album demonstrating
how exciting our sportponies are.

Photos will be accepted at this special EMAIL address.

VISIT TEDDY'S
BLOG
ON HIS QUEST
FOR THE
US OLYMPIC TEAM
By his Owner/Breeder
P.Wynn Norman

Editor's note:
It's a MUST read
!!!!!!


2007 USEF
"HORSE OF THE YEAR"

Theodore O'Connor with rider Karen O'Connor. Photo by Marcia Sizer

In an effort to inform American Riding Pony enthusiasts of places to showcase their ponies’ talents, please submit dates of recognized competitions holding classes (breed specific or open) that feature Riding Pony types for the 2008 ARP Calendar.

 

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