Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon
(*Gun Smoke x Kynynmont Terra)

15.3 h ¾ Connemara gelding, born 2008

Grand Prix Dressage Horse; Bred and Owned by Kathryn Williams

 

A local fundraiser for Brooke USA featured dressage freestyles set to a live performance by the Spartanburg Philharmonic. This is JJ Tate on the Grand Prix 3/4 Connemara, Kynynmont Gunsmok’e Gideon. Kathy Nebel - October 2021

Here is the official show photograph of Gideon from TIEC’s press release. Photo by Susan Stickle. (Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon, 2008 Connemara Cross gelding (Gun Smoke x Kynynmont Tara) owned by Pam Liddell, received a score of 67.925% for the Grand Prix Freestyle).

4/21/19

US Dressage Federation All-Breed Awards
1st place Grand Prix Open, Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon (o: Pam Liddell, r: Jessica Tate)
Grand Prix Musical Freestyle, Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon (o: Pam Liddell, r: Jessica Tate)

2016 USDF All-Breed 1st place Intermediare I
2016 USDF All-Breed 1st place Prix St. George
2016 USEF Dressage Halfbred Connemara of the Year - RESERVE CHAMPION


2015 USDF Region 1 Champion at 4th Level Open
2015 USEF Dressage Halfbred Connemara of the Year - CHAMPION

2014 Halfbred Connemara of the Year
2014 Adequan/USDF All-Breed 1st place Fourth Level Open

2012 USEF Half-bred Connemara of the Year - CHAMPION

2011 Bronze Medal in Dressage

We did it! Kynynmont Gunsmoke’s Gideon made his Grand Prix debut!
This horse is one in a million and I’m so honored I get to be his trainer! Thank you Pam for breeding him and trusting me with his training and care! He is a wonderful representative of the Connemara breed! He is 3/4 Connemara,10 years old & sure looks bigger than his 15’2 hands! He is a joy to have around every day & so much fun to ride and train! Pam has some incredible Connemara/warm blood crosses coming up the ranks so be sure to check it out if you want your own Gideon! (JoJo Tate - fb post 6/16/18)

Kynynmont Gunsmoke’s Gideon Is Giving The Little Guy A Good Name - Article from the Chronicle of the Horse

So proud of the Super Pony, Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon, who was the show High point and FEI High point in Lexington with his winning 70.7% in the Developing Prix St George! This is the most remarkable 8 yr old I've ever had the delight to train! He is so much fun, so talented, & every day a joy! Pam Liddell has many like him at her Connemara breeding farm in Pa! Erin Brooke Freedman will be riding, showing, & starting some half breeds just like Gideon! I'm 5'11 and he's plenty big enough for me at 15'2! I'm so grateful to have a group of amazing horses & wonderful supportive owners! Thank u all for your continued support! JJ Tate (May 2016)


SIRE & DAM
*Gun Smoke (below) X Kynynmont Terra
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Excerpt from ACPS.org NEWS Wednesday, 28 October 2015 20:59
photo by Richard Malmgren:

After winning the 4th level, test 3 class at Dressage at Devon the first weekend of October 2015, Gideon went on to win the 2015 Championship honors at 4th Level Open this past weekend at Region 1 Dressage Championships held in Lexington, Virginia. Having also received a qualifying score at Prix St. Georges at Region 1 Championships, Gideon will move on to compete at the U.S. Dressage Finals in Lexington, Kentucky the first weekend of November at both 4th Level and Prix St. Georges.

Gideon is a 7-year-old, ¾ Connemara, by Gunsmoke and out of my halfbred Connemara mare, Kynynmont Tara (Greystone McErill x Irish Rose). He exhibits all the wonderful traits of a Connemara pony that make Connemaras so good for dressage---naturally forward-thinking, extremely willing and very supple, My thanks go to JJ Tate of Team Tate Dressage, who trains and shows Gideon, and to her husband, Richard Malmgren, who takes so many beautiful photos of my ponies, including this one. JJ has done an amazing job of bringing the best out in Gideon, and also supervising the training by her assistant trainer, Kaitlin Blythe, of my now 4th-Level stallion, Kynynmont Cooper O’Grady (*Gunsmoke x Kynynmont Moira). At the beginning of September, with Kaitlin in the saddle on all three, Cooper won the National Dressage Pony Cup Finals 3rd-Level Open Championship.

The ponies had another fabulous show with Team Tate Dressage, this time at Region 1 Championships in Lexington, VA. JJ Tate piloted Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon to another big win, making him 2015 Region 1 Champion at 4th Level Open. JJ has done a beautiful job of bringing out the best in Gideon.

Whoohoo!!! Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon made the front cover of USDF Connection magazine! The article is about the Trainers Conference that took place in Loxahatchee, FL in January, where trainers from all over the country come to learn from a top international trainer. Gideon and his trainer, JJ Tate, were asked to participate as one of the horse/rider demo pairs. What an honor for Gideon! Many thanks to JJ for making it happen! (Pam Liddell)

Jessica Jo Tate on Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon in the Adequan/USDF FEI Trainers Conference with Jo Hinnemann.

2015 USDF Region 1 Champion at 4th Level Open
2015 USEF Dressage Halfbred Connemara of the Year - CHAMPION
2014 Halfbred Connemara of the Year
2014 Adequan/USDF All-Breed 1st place Fourth Level Open
2012 USEF Half-bred Connemara of the Year - CHAMPION

Team Tate's Kaitlin Blythe did her usual fabulous job of showing three other Kynynmont ponies, including Kynynmont Cooper O'Grady at 4th Level, with a second and a third. Kaitlin has done so much to bring these ponies along.

Thank you so much to JJ and Kaitlin for a magnificent training and showing job with all of them. And thank you to for recording their successes with such gorgeous photos! By owner, Pam Liddell

http://www.acps.org/news-media/187-kynynmont-gunsmoke-s-gideon

 

 

Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon 2008, 15.3h gelding (*Gun Smoke x Kynynmont Tara), was the 2014 ACPS HALFBRED CONNEMARA OF THE YEAR!
Congratulations to owner/breeder Pam Liddell of Conestoga, PA

At the Region 1 GAIG Dressage Finals in Williamston, N.C.,Kynynmont Gunsmoke's Gideon (*Gun Smoke x Kynynmont Tara), who was fifth in the First Level Open Champion with a score of a 78.243% in First-3 (ACPS.org "Connemara Happenings", reported January 2013)


Below is posted with permission from the American Connemara - 2012 Awards Issue:

 

At the PVDA Ride for Life Dressage Show in Upper Marlboro, MD this past weekend. Kynynmont Gunsmoke’s Gideon (*Gun Smoke X Kynynmont Tara) scored a 79.828% at First Level, Test 1, a hair’s breadth away from an 80%!!! That score earned him the Overall High Score Champion award for the entire show, in which approximately 275 horses competed.

2011 Bronze Medal in Dressage

At his first recognized show,Kynynmont Gunsmoke’s Gideon (*Gun Smoke X Irish Rose), a Connemara half-bred ridden by trainer, Dorie Addy-Crow. Gideon, not to be outdone by his siblings, placed first in Training Level Test 3 on Friday, with a score of 74.8%. He also took a third (72%) and a fifth (70.7%) (behind his siblings).

(From ACPS.org weekly pony news 11/6/11) Conestoga, PA: Colonel Bengt Ljungquist Memorial Championships and Garden State Classic Dressage Show (NJ) In his first recognized show, was Kynynmont Gunsmoke’s Gideon (*Gun Smoke X Irish Rose), a Connemara half-bred ridden by trainer, Dorie Addy-Crow. Gideon, not to be outdone by his siblings, placed first in Training Level Test 3 on Friday, with a score of 74.8%. He also took a third (72%) and a fifth (70.7%) (behind his siblings).

 



Gideon won the First Level High Score award at Dressage at Fair Hill at the beginning of June

 

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