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Topic: PONY POWER!! TEDDY STRIKES GOLD!! (Read 1981 times)
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TwinGates
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At the Pan Am Games, Team USA took Gold & swept the top 4 places, with the brilliant, 14.1h Theodore O'Connor (TB/Arabian/Shetland) winning GOLD!! 
GO TEDDY!!!!
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From Anna Goebel's SporHorse e-newsLate News Flash! "Teddy" to be Breyer Horse! Breyer Animal Creations®, The Theodore O'Connor Syndicate, LLC, and Sportponies Unlimited are delighted to announce that Theodore O'Connor, the 14.1-hand pony that has caused a sensation in the eventing world, will be the latest international star to join the Breyer Animal Creations' stable as a Breyer portrait model in 2008!
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I haven't had a Breyer horse since I was a kid, but will be buying one of this brilliant pony! 
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Joy
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I take it he was competing against full-size horses? Cool! There was a British horse some years ago that was pony sized that caused a jumping sensation, also. I love these little horses that jump BIG!
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Yep, against the big boys. If I'm not mistaken, Gina Miles' McInlaugh (Bronze medalist) is well over 17h. Didn't phase "Ready Teddy" apparently.
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TwinGates
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Okay, found a few other references of PONY POWER. Older, but definitely worth re-printing (both Connemara ponies):
DUNDRUM, Tommy Wade's 15 hand Connemara gelding, became Supreme Champion at the Wembley Horse of the Year Show when he set a record by clearing a 7' 2" puissance wall. In 1961, he was regarded as show jumper of the century when he won five major events at the Dublin Horse Show. It was the first time in history that so many awards were won by the same rider, let alone the same horse! He was the International Jumping Champion from 1959 to 1963.
STROLLER, a 14.1+ Connemara half-bred became the only pony to have ever competed in an Olympic Games. He was a member of the British Team competing in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, ridden by Marion Coakes. Bill Steinkraus and SNOWBOUND won the Gold Medal while Marion and STROLLER won the Individual Silver Medal, only four points behind Steinkraus. He was one of only two horses to jump a clear round in the entire 1968 Olympics, clearing a puissance fence of 6' 10".
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