Seldom Seen 3474891 206199900 2008-04-17T08:16:10Z Narsil 85121 Disambiguate [[AHSA]] to [[American Horse Shows Association]] using [[:en:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups|popups]] '''Seldom Seen''' was a horse that competed at the highest levels of [[dressage]] with his rider, [[Lendon Gray]]. *'''Lived''': 1970-1996 *'''Color''': [[Gray (horse)|Gray]] *'''Sex''': [[Gelding]] *'''Height''': 14.2 [[Hand (unit)|hh]] *'''Breed''': [[Connemara pony|Connemara]]/[[Thoroughbred]] *'''Rider''': [[Lendon Gray]] *'''Owner''': Peg Whitehurst American-bred Seldom Seen was trained and competed by the Olympic dressage rider Lendon Gray. The pony was originally intended to be a [[Pony Club]] mount for Kim, the daughter of Peg Whitehurst. He won [[USDF]] Horse of the Year awards from Third Level through Grand Prix, as well as an individual gold medal at the U.S. Olympic Festival in Syracuse, NY. He was also [[American Horse Shows Association|AHSA]] Reserve Champion at 2nd level and AHSA Champion at 3rd, 4th, Prix St. Georges, and Intermediaire 1. The impressive pony was retired in 1987, after winning the Grand Prix, Grand Prix Special, and Grand Prix Freestyle at Dressage at Devon. He died in 1996, at the age of 26. Although very small for a Grand Prix dressage horse, and described as an average mover, Seldom Seen was very successful, and was particularly loved by the public because he was an "average" horse that performed spectacularily. The pony was inducted into the USDF Hall of Fame in 2005. Google video of his [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8454853385490342734 retirement ceremony] at Dressage at Devon in 1987. The video explains how he got his name. [[Category: Dressage horses]] [[Category:Famous Connemaras]]