The Tam O’Shanter Championship and Qualifiers

For over a decade, the prestigious Tam O’Shanter Championship has taken place at the main Breed Show with the aim of encouraging particularly one-pony owners and small breeders to showcase their Connemara mares and young stock. This Championship recognises that Connemara mares and young stock are the future of the breed and puts them into the spotlight.

Qualifiers for the Tam O’Shanter are run at affiliated shows all across the UK for pure-bred, BCPS-registered Connemara ponies competing in-hand in the following classes:

• Yearlings
• Two-year-olds
• Three-year-olds
• Connemara mares

The Championship was originally started by Carole Prentice and is named after her premium stallion Kirtling Tam O’Shanter. Tam O’Shanter produced many high-quality mares, which Carole considered to be his legacy to the breed. Carole always took a great interest in the visiting mares coming to her stallion and ran a small but select band of quality mares herself. The Championship’s current organisers are delighted that demand for the Tam O’Shanter Championship continues today.

For more information on the Championship, please download the Tam O’Shanter Objectives and Showing and Trimming Rules from this page.