Unknown Lassie IRE 1595



Unknown Lassie lived up to her name. During a period when most mares in the Irish stud book had both breeder and parents listed in the stud book all we find out about her is that she was bay with a star, born in 1948 and 140 cm high. She has a single registered daughter, Mountain Nancy, and beyond the owner's name there is nothing else to be found about Unknown Lassie.

Turn instead to the last page of the fist volume of the Swedish Connemara stud book and you find Mountain Nancy's first dayghter, Sunlight. There are mixed opinions about who was Sunlight's breeder with different information in the Swedish and the Irish stud book, but what is clear is that she was one of the early imports made by the countess of Oxenstierna. Sunlight's oldest daughter, Värnbergs Capella, became a foundation mare at the Lindebolet stud. As a four-year-old her owner describes her as cheeky with good jumping ability, something she showed by jumping out of her field. Jumping ability was also something Capella passed on to her offspring; Lindebolets Hafnia, Brassica and Polarn have all show jumping competition points. The daughters Lindebolets Lithia and Finnish export Zannichella are diploma mares and as a three-year-old Zannichella won her class at the breed show with a strong gold. Lindebolets Lithia never took any competition points herself, but as a brood mare she passed on the performance genes. Her son Lipton was for many years a recurring name on the list of the top ten dressage Connemaras with a to ten of all breeds in 1998. The same year he was fifth at the Swedish indoor dressage championships. Lithia's daughters Lie and Linette have, in addition to dressage points competition points in eventing and show jumping.

The performance genes have also been passed on from Lithia's daughters. Among her descendants we find performance ponies such as Hampus II, Jimmy Choo, Kristall and the young pony championship qualifier Gossip Girl (all competing in dressage); Copelia and the partbred Rasmus (show jumping(; Gervides Yrsa and Lovely Silver Jackie (show jumping and dressage) and Libretto (show jumping and eventing). We also find Råås Emerald with a movements award at the three-year-old test and the young pony championship wualifier Hilda with a jumping ward from her quality test. The most merited is, however, Libelle, who in 2003 was the highest ranked show jumping Connemara with a forth among all breeds. Libelle represented Sweden, Norway and Denmark during his competition career and won an individual silver and a bronze at the Nordic Championships and participated in the European championships in 1999, 2000 and 2003. In addition to the performance ponies we find among Lithias descendants the diploma mares Little Sweet Lollipop, Chera-Non and Beauty Hawk, and Lovely Silver Jackie, Copelia, China Girl, Wals Chalmer and Råås Emerald have all been gold awarded at the breed show.

Värnbergs Capella's youngest daughter, Ceti, has, through her daughter Chess III, given rise to a branch of the family which is significantly smaller than the one descending from Lithia, but which deserves attention nonetheless. No less than six of Chess' ten offspring have competition points: Caresse and Celeste driven, Countess II in dressage, Chesterfield and Duchess in both show jumping and dressage and Chelsea in show jumping and driven with a gold from the Swedish driven championships as her finest result. In addition Chelsea's daughter Felizia has competed successfully in dressage and Chesterfield has been gold awarded at the breed show.

Returning to Sunlight three foals with Lambay Inver was followed by three foals with Slieve Dara. The youngest daughter Moonlight II carried on the family tradition of a brood mare with strong performance offspring, primarily in show jumping. Cider and Sunshine V had their successes during the 90ies, but the most successful of Moonlight's foals is no doubt Blue Sham. During the second half of the 90ies and in 2001 he was among the ten most successful show jumping Connemaras and in 1998 he was ninth among all breeds. Several participations in the Swedish show jumping championships were crowned by a bronze in 1996. In 2002 Blue Sham was inspected and passed as a stallion with a particular praise for his movements. The progeny list, however, only contains ten offspring and neither of them by a Connemara mare. Moonlight's daughters Twilight and Schanin have also successfully competing progeny. Twilight is the dam of Olbiz Buzz Lightyear and the 2009 Connemara dressage champion in category C - Olbiz Tellus. Both Olbiz brothers have competition points in both show jumping and dressage while Schanin's son, Indy Hawk, has focused on show jumping.

So far Sunlight and her Swedish branch of Unknown Lassie's family, but what about the rest of Mountain Nancy's progeny? The largest branch comes from Sulight's one year younger full sister Fort Nancy. Fort Nancy's oldest daughter Kelso was exported to France and through the daughter Norma, she is the grand dam of the stallion Hurlevan du Preuil, placed in the French show jumping championships in 2002, and great grand dam of Rodger du Preuil, winner of the 2006 breed show class for yearling colts.

In the UK we find another daughter of Fort Nancy, Nettina, riding pony and brood mare at the Lanburn stud. Nettina's stallion son Lanburn Leemoy had a successful show career with wins, stallion championships and a reserve Supreme Champion title at the 1978 breed show as icing on the cake. As a stallion, however, he had a limited number of offspring. Nettina's daughter Lanburn Leoni have been a successful ridden pony. In 2008 - 2009 she was the mare with the highest points in the British Performance Award Scheme and in 2009 she was awarded a Ridden Premium.

Lamburn Leoni was the dam of several successful offspring. Tuan Sea Lord has done well in the Performance Award Scheme and Tyan Takara was reserve to the Supreme Champion of the 2004 ridden show when she also qualified to the national ridden class finals at Olympia. Takara's half brother Tyan Tullamore was reserve champion at the 2006 ridden show and Supreme champion in 2009, he has won the Performance Award Shceme and numerous Working Hunter Pony titles at the highest national level. Tyan Takara is the dam of two Class 1 stallions, Skellorn Harrison and Skellorn Monarch, both class winners at the British breed show. Harrison was after winning his class for several year awarded the Supreme Championship in 2010 and has qualified to Olympia no less than three times and once to Horse of the Year show.

There are more branches to Unknown Lassie's mare family than what has been brought up here and her descendants can be found in many countries. In Sweden, France and the UK we have time and again found ponies from Unknown Lassie's mare family with excellent riding and performance qualities as well as in hand qualities every now and then. Surely there is more to discover given the possibility to dig deeper in more countries.


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Unknown Lassie IRE 1595 (Ire)
Mountain Nancy IRE 1795(Ire)
Sunlight IRE 2632, RC 20 (Ire, Swe)
Värnbergs Capella RC 197 (Swe)
Fermius (Swe)
Lindebolets Hafnia (Swe)
Lindebolets Iridium (Swe)
Lindebolets Kristall (Swe)
Lindebolets Lithia RC 452 (Swe)
Livia (Swe)
Jazmine RC 776 (Swe)
Gervides Yrsa RC 1343 (Swe)
Jimmy Choo (Swe)
Gervides Zorro (Swe)
Anam Joy (Swe)
Rasmus (Swe)
Hampus II (Swe)
Linette RC 572 (Swe)
Copelia RC 698 (Swe)
Chera-Li RC 826 (Swe)
Choko-La RC 1005 (Swe)
Cheer Guy (Swe)
China Girl RC 1316 (Swe)
Chera-Non RC 1450 (Swe)
Wal's Chalmer (Swe)
Lenito (Swe)
Axxas Lenita RC 861 (Swe)
Lady Hawk RC 1059 (Swe)
Toma Hawk (Swe)
Beauty Hawk RC 1323 (Swe)
Picasso II (Swe)
Lovely Silver Jackie RC 1372 (Swe)
Little Sweet Lollipop RC 1307, NOR 99 (Swe, Nor)
Råås Emerald RC 1474 (Swe)
High's Hotpoint (Nor)
Gossip Girl (Swe)
Lie RC 590 (Swe)
Chagall III (Swe)
Libell (Swe, Den, Nor)
Libretto (Swe)
Lipton (Swe)
Lisette RC 1064 (Swe)
Korall (Swe)
Kristall (Swe)
Rosette II (Swe)
Höryda Honey (Swe)
Norr Marjums Lexus (Swe)
Rubin (Swe)
Hilda (Swe)
Bäckagårdens Svea (Swe)
Bäckagårdens Gandalf (Swe)
Golden Dream (Swe)
Lucina (Swe)
Lithos (Swe)
Livius (Swe)
Mighty (Swe)
Brassica (Swe)
Zannichella FIN 43 C (Swe, Fin)
Polarn (Swe)
Ceti RC 679 (Swe)
Chess III RC 922 (Swe)
Chelsea RC 1031 (Swe)
Felizia (Swe)
Chesterfield (Swe)
Countess II (Swe)
Duchess (Swe)
Celcius (Swe)
Celeste (Swe)
Caresse (Swe)
Cacharelle (Swe)
Marquessa (Swe)
Mr. Rochester (Swe)
Värnbergs Rigel (Swe)
Othello (Swe)
Thunder Lad (Swe)
Fanny III RC 509 (Swe)
Happy II RC 649 (Swe)
Happy Simone (Swe)
Happys Mack-Li (Swe)
Carita RC 727 (Swe)
Mac Zebelon (Swe)
Moonlight II RC 371 (Swe)
Moon-Amie RC 535 (Swe)
Mayday (Swe)
Champiro (Swe)
Pomlight Star (Swe)
Cider (Swe)
Blue Sham RC 92 (Swe)
Sunshine V (Swe)
Twilight (Swe)
Olbiz Tellus (Swe)
Olbiz Buzz Lightyear (Swe)
Karisma RCB 7 (Swe)
Finesse (Swe)
Blondie (Swe)
Cisko (Swe)
Schanin (Swe)
Indy Hawk (Swe)
Lilla åskan (Swe)
Fort Nancy IRE 2833 (Ire)
Kelso IRE 3773 (Ire)
Little Mary (Ire, Ned)
Little John (Ned)
Hobby (Fra)
Pavane du Preuil (Fra)
Vague du Preuil (Fra)
Asmodee du Preuil (Fra)
Daisy des Foltiers (Fra)
Ireland de Montcelly (Fra)
Sir de l'Oracle (Fra)
Rosabelle du Preuil (Fra)
Kiss (Fra)
Lincoln (Fra)
Norma (Fra)
Vali (Fra)
Harley du Pouget (Fra)
Cheops du Preuil (Fra, Bel)
W-Nefertiti de Renival (Bel)
Digitale du Chesselet (Bel)
Eglantine du Chesselet (Bel)
Alesia du Chesselet (Bel)
Fly de la Noyelle (Bel)
Guiness de la Noyelle (Bel)
Iro Spring Night de la Noyelle (Bel)
Jagger de la Noyelle (Bel)
Gold Boy of the Crowes (Bel)
Iris du Chesselet (Bel)
Athena du Chesselet (Bel)
Cytise du Chesselet (Bel)
Diabolo du Chesselet (Bel)
Epona du Chesselet (Bel)
Flavia du Chesselet (Bel)
Hilary du Chesselet (Bel)
Cerise de Renival (Bel)
Finian van de Lichtekouter (Bel)
Dioxine de Renival (Bel)
Harnack de Renival (Bel)
Idem de Renival (Bel)
Exotic de Renival (Bel)
Furie de Renival (Bel)
Gatsby de Renival (Bel)
Dabalaya du Preuil (Fra)
Hurlevan du Preuil (Fra)
Lorna Dun du Preuil (Fra)
Querida du Preuil (Fra)
Rodger du Preuil (Fra)
Nettina IRE 7770, GBR 14943 (Ire, GBR)
Lanburn Leemoy GBR 6712 (GBR)
Lanburn Lynetta GBRM 148 (GBR)
Lanburn Legato GBRGe 489 (GBR)
Peachfields Macushla GBR Ge 746 (GBR)
Folgate Minerva GBRM 1394 (GBR)
Folgate Riverdance GBRM 1923 (GBR)
Lanburn Leonie GBRM 437 (GBR)
Mosshill Maeve GBRM 1128 (GBR)
Shalfleet Zebedee GBRGe 1158 (GBR)
Mosshill Willoughby GBRGe 944 (GBR)
Tyan Takara GBRM 1466 (GBR)
Skellorn Harrison GBRS 130 (GBR)
Skellorn Monarch GBRS 188 (GBR)
Skellorn Princess GBRM 2437 (GBR)
Skellorn Madison GBRS.2 242 (GBR)
Skellorn Manhattan (GBR)
Skellorn Leonie GBRM 2576 (GBR)
Tyan Tennison GBRGe 1141 (GBR)
Tyan Lady Grey (GBR)
Tyan Tullamore GBRGe 1417 (GBR)
Tyan Sea Lord GBRGe 1543 (GBR)
Tyan Noble Star GBRGe 1764 (GBR)
Tyan Cloonannagh GBRM 1971 (GBR)
Tyan Dashing Mac GBR Ge 1982 (GBR)
Tyan Talk of the Town GBRS.2 212, GBR Ge 2795 (GBR)
Lanburn Limit GBRGe 682 (GBR)
Fort Alex IRE G 599 (Ire)
Fort Cherry Blossom IRE 5851 (Ire)
Cove Priate IRE G 791 (Ire)
Fort Violet IRE 3040, NED I 97 (Ire, Ned)
Kerry Gold IRE 311 (Ire)
Janette IRE 4310, NED I 110 (Ire, Ned, Ger)
Fort Vincent IRE G 516 (Ire, Swe)
Fort Buttercrust IRE 5208 (Ire, Fra)
Inez (Fra)
Lutteur IV (Fra)
Lambay Nancy IRE 3252 (Ire, Ger)
Lambay Nice Fellow IRE G 386 (Ire)
Lambay Robert IRE 514 (Ire)
Nina IRE 6128 (Ire, Ger)
Mountain Sava / Sava of Shipton IRE 3553, GBR 13822 (Ire, GBR)
Pitfold Mountain Maid GBR 15548 (GBR)
Pitfold Mountain Thyme GBR 15996 (GBR)
Pitfold Mountaineer (GBR)
Rockmount Robin IRE G 343 (Ire)
Rockmount Nancy IRE 5257, NED I 180 (Ire, Ned)
Jeanette v.d. Roerwi Boy's (Ned)
Atheos (Ned)

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