Thunderbolt
~Premium Stallion~
(English Connemara Pony Society)
~Clifden Winner~
(Connemara Pony Breeders Society
Ireland)

(below: photo taken from the cover of Pat
Lyne's book entitled:  Thunderbolt: His
Live and Times, Combe, 1995).

Photos at right, below right:  Madeleine
Beckman photographer/breeder
www.carnabyconnemara.se

Willow Boy's Maternal Grandsire
THUNDERBOLT

*KING OF THE EMERALD ISLES
*CLIFDEN WINNER

Our very own Willow Boy's
GRANDSIRE!
*Sillbridge Miranda
(below)
ECPS imported from the UK,
daughter of
Thunderbolt

Dam of Willow Boy
Click to visit *Miranda on the ACPS!
Keyhole of Abbeyleix (right)
~ECPS  Premium Mare~
(UK)
Maternal great granddam

Both Keyhole of Abbeyleix  
as well as
the SUPER PREMIUM MARE,

Errisbeg Rose
are prominent mares in
Willow Boy's Family.
Pictured below, Willow Boy's
sire the
famous
*Chiltern Colm (UK)
Counter
Breeding
Information





Willow Run Connemaras is pleased and proud to offer at stud:
Landsdown Willow's Harbour Boy
"Willow Boy"














We did our research before rushing off to purchase this young colt and it has most
certainly been one of the most rewarding decisions of our lives.  
Willow Boy's sire, the late,
*Chiltern Colm (photo below) was bred by one of the most
knowledgable and influential Connemara Pony breeders in the World,
Ms. Pat Lyne of
the United Kingdom.  She had an inkling about a certain young  stallion, Corrib (Colm's
sire) and knew that if she could just pair him with the right mare, in this case her very
own,
Chiltern Gazelle (Island Duke x Artic Moon), the offspring would be amazing.  She
was right!  *Chiltern Colm has produced fine progeny who not only excel in performance
areas, but are breed "type" representatives as well.  Ms. Lyne has written many
authoritative books on the breed including,
Out of the Mist and Shrouded in Mist. (click
here to shop for Pat Lyne books via the ACPS)!
Why are we breeding a Thunderbolt grandson?
What IS a "native pony"?
Pat Lyne suggests, "Thunderbolt retained the physique of the original Connemara work pony. . this,
together with his alert intelligence enabled him to live the life of a native pony; his greatest gifts
were his hardiness and the kindest of kind natures, which, he passed on, without exception, to all of
his progeny."
Our "Willow Boy's" dam, also imported from the UK, *Sillbridge Miranda has as her sire
this  all-time greats of Connemara pedigrees,
the bold and the beautiful,
Thunderbolt.
Thunderbolt maintains the 5th line of Irish stallion blood hailing from one of the
original stallions of the early CPBS, Mountain Lad.

"Willow Boy"~ACPS Breeding Stallion: #S708 XLI
Registered Name:
Landsdown Willow's Harbour Boy
2002 Dapple Grey from Bay, 14H
2010 Stud Fee:  
$700
includes $200 Non-Refundable Booking Fee
LFG
Live Cover ONLY!



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Contact the Farm at:
(812)-381-0428
willowrun@bluemarble.net
Willow Boy
June 2008