Tullymor's April Fool
M1368 XXVII, 14.0 h, gray

ACPS Inspected and Approved
In 1980 it was thought that the Mountain Lad stallion line, one of three major Connemara stallion lines, was in grave danger. The situation was thought to be so dire that some extraordinary measures to save the line were taken. May Medley in Georgia started to breed her son of Mon Tully Man (Tully Lad X Tooreen Pet [by Tooreen Laddie]),who she had been keeping in her backyard for many years. Monyully Son is a greatgrandson of Mountain Lad through his grandsire Tully Lad and May had been told by Caroline Nesbitt that he was the last of the Mountain Lad line. Montully Son was out of a daughter of Marconi, Marconi’s Stormy Rebel. May also bought a daughter of Jiminy Cricket, another son of Tully Lad, so she could line breed from the Mountain Lad line. This pony, Aillte Mhuire, had had one daughter by Custusha’s Cashel Rock, Courtney’s April Frolic, before coming to Georgia where she produced many offspring. Many progeny of the successful crosses of this Montully Son X Aillte Muhire breeding can be found. One of these, Balmullo’s Beacon (Tullymor’s April Fool X Aladdin), owned by Vanessa Morgan, was a successful eventer and prolific sire for Foothill’s Farm. Another is Samson McDara, mentioned above as the resident stallion at Buery Stout’s West Virginia Providence farm. But May also bred Montully Son to many other what she called “old-fashioned” Connemaras, those that she could find with no Little Heaven blood in their pedigree. This program was in many ways extraordinarily successful with Tullymor ponies now in every corner of the US. ACPS Weekly Pony News 5-17-09

Montully's Son
M307 XI
 *Montully Man

Tully Lad

Toureen Pat
Marconi's Stormy Rebel *Marconi
Rebel Nelly
Aillte Mhuire
M710 XI
*Jiminey Cricket
 Tully Lad
Ballinahinch Grey
*Mountain Dew
Cill Ciarin
Ridge Bay

April was the Champion Mare at the 1994 ACPS Region IV Connemara Extravaganza.

The Irish judge commented that April was everything you could want in a Connemara!

 

 

 
 
 

April is the dam of many wonderful purebred Connemaras, including:
Balmullo's Beacon by Aladdin
Balmullo's Rhiannon by C.R. Roaringwater Bay
Balmullo's Veronica (a.k.a. Lamb Chop) by C.R. Roaringwater Bay
Tullymor's May Belle by Fieldstream Riley
and the list goes on...