Elk Creek O'Connor
Elk Creek O'Connor and Boots Plyler finished in the ribbons in the 2011 Hunter Pace Series. Here they finish with a big smile.

In the spring of 2011, Connor successfully finished another winter season of hunter paces with his owners/riders Boots and Sarah Plyler.
Sarah and Connor at Fairview Hunter Pace. Photo © Lou Smith


Elk Creek O'Connor is seen here with his owner Boots Plyler participating in an all-adult drill team in SC, Nov 2010.

Elk Creek O'Connor made a successful transition to Connemara show pony - he and Boots attended the 2010 Region 4 ACPS Show and he pinned in every class. This winter he will be back on the trails doing hunter paces with Boots and her daughter up.

 
Connor and "his" people at the 2010 ACPS Region 4 Show.

Connor, moved to Greenville SC in the spring of 2009 to join his new owner Susan "Boots" Plyler. She has been looking for a Connemara for her 'lifetime' horse. She and her two daughters are avid riders, and hunter pace alternate weekends all winter long. So Connor will have lots of big adventures there.

 
Photos by Lou Smith, autumn 2009.
L: Connor & one of Boots' daughters. R:Connor and Boots finishing their first Hunter Pace together after lots of practice crossing streams.

Connor trailered well to Lancaster PA where Boots picked him up and the next day he was south of the Mason Dixon line where he may not need that warm winter coat. She promises regular updates.


Connor in May 2009

Connor in April 2009

 

Elk Creek O'Connor (Elphin Song Sparrow x Tower Hill's Carmody) has arrived in NH. He made the 1000 mile road trip from Kewadin Michigan without batting an eyelash (first time off the farm) despite hour long traffic jams and blinding/deafening hail and rain storms!

Connor will be at Sunrise Bay Farm for the month of July getting started on round pen work, bitting him up and long lining, etc.

He is a beautiful golden buckskin with a nice topline, broad chest, short cannon bones and sloping shoulder, floating trot, and great feet.

Connor comes wth a reputation for jumping over stall doors, so there will be more orthodox jumping in his future as well.


Connor is the fourth foal of my mare Tower Hill's Carmody who is now home in NH and has been re-bred.


Connor as a foal.

Connor's sire, Elphin Song Sparrow, is a gorgeous bay stallion, now gelded, by Maplehurst Michael Macdaire, out of *Scottsway Lullaby.


Connor's sire Elphin Song Sparrow.

Song Sparrow had one purebred foal before he left Elphin Mountain Connemaras, and Connor is his only other. He also has a number of halfbred offspring.

Below: Connor's paternal grandsire, Maplehurst Michael MacDaire and granddam *Scottsway Lullaby.