$20,000

Registered ACPS Half Connemara 2019 16h Connemara x Thoroughbred bay mare

Landgate Bluebeard x Monyona

Born May 31, 2019 to Thoroughbred dam, Monyona.  Monyona is tall leggy OTTB by Strong Contender.  By the Connemara stallion, Landgate Bluebeard, Bayou carries all of the best Connemara traits.  She is very sweet, smart, brave, and quick to think.  She will make an awesome jumper, eventer, or foxhunter.  She should mature to approximately 16 hands.

Blue Bayou was shown at the 2021 ACPS Region III show in Lexington, Virginia in July, 2021. She was Reserve Champion in the 2020 Yearling Futurity (delayed until 2021 due to Covid) and was the Reserve Champion Half-bred Connemara. She is correct, a good mover and ready to be someone’s next show horse.

Landgate Bluebeard is a Premium stallion of the American Connemara Pony Society. He is a son of *Rocky, imported from IRE after winning the championship at the prestigious Clifden Show. Bluebeard has sired champions in-hand, ridden ponies and halfbreds, in all disciplines. He has a daughter who has shown in the Grand Prix rings in dressage, and many offspring who are eventing and jumpers. His daughter, Cricket Song, out of a TB mare, is typical of the "go getter" attitude Bluebeard passes to his get. He himself was a first flight foxhunter with Blue Ridge Hunt in Virginia. He evented successfully, but in unrecognized events because his younger riders went off to school, and the pony had to be ridden by his amateur owner. He was always game, and never refused a fence, or was out of the ribbons at all the local No. Virginia events. He was champion or reserve at every Connemara show, and his get have continued that winning streak. Possessed of a very sweet personality, Bluebeard was often a Pony Club demo pony.