ARP Past Stars & Current

For the first time in history, the Individual GOLD MEDAL for Eventing at the 2007 Pan American Games was earned by the now famous sportpony Theodore O’Connor who jumps perfect rounds over Cross Country and Stadium Courses where the fences are bigger than he is tall! “Teddy’s” major accomplishments in open competition against full sized horses demonstrate many of the American Riding Pony’s numerous attributes. He was also voted the
2007 USEF HORSE OF THE YEAR by the USEF membership. The USEA will offer a perpetual trophy for the Highest Scoring Pony in Eventing each year in his honor.

Lendon Gray’s mount named Seldom Seen competed nationally at the highest levels of Dressage. The little gray with the big presence was 14.2 hands "small". This impressive pony was retired in 1987 at the age of 17, after winning the Grand Prix, Grand Prix Special, and Grand Prix Freestyle at Dressage at Devon that year. A Dressage Superstar, he won many national Year End awards and was inducted into the US Dressage Federation Hall of Fame in 2005.

MARCUS AURELIUS was a Connemara/Thoroughbred ridden by Mary Anne Tauskey. The pair competed in the 1975 Pan American Games and were members of the Gold Medal winning United States Eventing Team. In 1976 they were again on the Gold Medal winning United States Eventing Team. (From the ACPS website)

At Madison Square Garden in New York , NY , in 1939, the 13.2 hand Connemara , Little Squire, won the Open Championship by clearing fences of seven feet. The American press dubbed him “the littlest horse with the biggest heart.”(From the ACPS website)