Paradox Cricket O'Carolan ('00) is TH Carmody's first foal, by the imported Irish stallion *Canal Laurinston who is owned by Joanie Webster of Stonybrook Connemars in Napa, California.

Cricket was born dun and is greying slowly as has her sire. She was shown in hand at the New England Dressage Association shows, and the Seacoast Sport Horse Breeders at age 2 and 3, and received high marks for conformation and movement.

Paradox Cricket cleaned up at the 2011 ACPS Region 1 show where she was Champion Mare, Grand Champion Connemara in Hand, and also won the Get of Sire for *Canal Laurinston with Sutton Cardigan and the Produce of Dam (TH Carmody) with Paradox Presto.

Then to top it off she was promoted to husband horse and took Tom safely on a hack around Maudsley State Park (MA) for a warm up, and then a two day trail ride on the carriage roads in Acadia. She has to trot to catch up with Breeze and me but she is a cheerful worker and very bombproof.

In 2010 Paradox Cricket was leased for the summer by Sarah Chisholm, and then moved up to be my mount as Breeze is retired in foal. Cricket and Sarah attended the HITS on the Hudson Connemara division at a recognized Welsh show, where she was third in hand in the Connemara mares class.

At the ACPS Region 1 show she was second to her dam, TH Carmody in the older mares class, and collected various ribbons. Over Labor Day weekend she made a splash as she brought the bride and groom across the field to the reception after my son Geoff married Sasha Clifton.