ELPHIN MOUNTAIN CONNEMARAS

SP Mils Breaban

1988 Golden Dun, 15 hh

Millie's sire Aladdin's Owen, age 2		Millie's dam Oak Hills Gold Friday
Millie has successfully evented at training level, competing in the 1998 Ontario Training Championships. She earned an ACPS bronze medallion in jumper and a silver medallion in combined training, and was nominated for the 1999 Pony of the Year Award. Millie also took her rider through a Pony Club B level testing.
© MC Wheeler 1997  Millie at Canterdown Horse Trails, training level, 1997		© Clix 1996  Millie at Sunset Farms Horse Trails, pre-training level, 1996
Millie and Kirsten, 1997	She has an outstanding temperament, loves attention and is totally people-oriented. Millie always needs to know what's going on and her curiosity often leads her astray, although she'll deny it if she's caught!		Millie and Kirsten, 2005
L: 1999 ECCPA Show, Res. Ch. Mare. R: At the Connemara Inspections, Elphin Mountain Farm, 1997

Millie's paternal grandsire, Aladdin, won the 1988 ACPS Hall of Fame An Tostal Award, given to a stallion used to promote Connemaras. He is known as the "grand old gentleman of Virginia", due to his contribution to the breed. Her paternal granddam, Far Above's Katherine, won the 1991 ACPS Hall of Fame Broodmare Award.

The Ultimate Eventer:
Millie on the flat, 1998	Schooling cross country at Box Arrow Farm, 1996	Competing at the Capital Classic Jumper Show Ottawa, 1997

Now retired as a broodmare, Millie produces foals with her wonderful attitude and athletic ability. Her eldest son, Elphin Cronan is standing in British Columbia and sire of successful halfbred eventers and jumpers, while daughter Dubheasa is in Vermont eventing and giving riding lessons.

Millie's Foals: Elphin Cronan: 1992 colt Elphin Brianna: 1994 filly Elphin Beann Fasach: 2000 filly Elphin Dubheasa: 2001 filly Elphin Sweet Friday: 2002 filly Elphin Milis Amhrán: 2003 filly Elphin Amharach: 2004 colt Elphin Milis Rosánna: 2006 filly

Millie and Rosa