Madison's Sire: Lynfields Kiltuck
Sire: *Texas Hope Dam: Round Robin's Easter
Bonnet
This athletic and handsome stallion is Madison's dad, Lynfields Kiltuck. Can
you see where Madi gets his great looks! Thanks, Joanie, for sending me these
photos of your boy (that's Joanie McKenna on Kiltuck in the cross country
photo).
Photos of Hideaway Bay, Madison's dam, will be posted later.
Hideaway Bay
(Heidi) was out of *Erin Bay
*Erin Bay was the queen at Hideaway Farm for years. She was a bay
mare, 13.1 h, with a finely chiseled head. Foaled in Ireland in 1951, she was by
the TB sire Little Heaven, who had been approved by the Connemara Pony Breeder's
Society in Ireland to upgrade the breed with new blood. Her dam was Glen Nelly,
by Gil. The Murchison's in Texas imported her along with the colt, *Texas Hope.
Later she was owned by Col. Dygert, and then she moved across the street to
Hideaway Farm for the rest of her long life. As a full-time mother she produced
15 foals, 12 of them by *Tooreen Laddie. Jackie Harris said, "Only after a
while did I fully appreciate what she was. She was a perfect mother. How lucky I
was! All her foals had similar characteristics. They all tapped the grain box
the way she did! They all had to be won over, then were forever friends. I
always felt that, as a mother, I should learn from her. She let her foals make
their own mistakes, interfering only when they were in real danger. She always
had an eye on them, but she didn't smother them. When she no longer had a foal
at foot, she would baby sit for her grandchildren." *Erin Bay had her last
foal at age 23 and died the next year.
From
an interview with Jackie Harris for the American Connemara 1998
Madison's grandsire: *Texas Hope
and
Madison's paternal grandmother: Round Robin's Easter Bonnet
Click
here to read more about Easter Bonnet, winner of the 1997 Broodmare Trophy
from the American Connemara Pony Society.
