TOUGH AND resilient, the Connemara pony is faring better than most equines during the current recession. This exciting and resourceful native breed has an international reputation, with societies in ...

A CONNEMARA pony has successfully bred with a native Japanese nag as scientists look to create a super horse. The prized west-of-Ireland ponies are renowned for their sweet nature and remarkable ...

As the annual Connemara Pony Show gets under way in Clifden, organisers have announced the postponement of events on Thursday and Friday due to forecast adverse weather. The news has caused upset and ...

Breeding thoroughbreds involves human intervention; far closer to ordinary equine experience is that of the Connemara pony. Galway man Willie Leahy is Ireland's largest breeder of this versatile ...

The Connemara pony is turning Japanese - on an island in the Oriental country. Ireland's famous equestrian breed has winged its way to the east through a frozen semen sample from the Galway breed. The ...

For the triumph of the breed at the recent European Pony Championships in Moorsele, Belgium, will be hailed in what is regarded as the traditional home of the Connemara. Ballyowen Maybell Molly, owned ...

Crowds flocked to the Connemara Breeders 80th annual show, and the 56th to be held in Clifden, despite the heavy early morning rain which later gave way to periods of finer weather. President Dermot ...

Fairy tales and hard working pack ponies all part of the annual Connemara Pony Show in Clifden. More than 400 ponies are taking part in various categories at the 71st annual Connemara Pony Show in ...

A Connemara pony competing in horse classes – Fairfax Hot Tottie – headed the Heritage Insurance diamond qualifier at Vale View, Leics. Her rider Georgia Sims is the reigning champion in this class, ...

THE FAMOUS Connemara pony, renowned for its durability and gentle nature, is being challenged in the European horse market by another unheralded Irish breed. The Irish Tinker, otherwise the piebald ...

Often when you are motoring across the broad bog of that distinct part of Ireland called Connemara, one of the final European fingers pointing to the long Atlantic miles Americaward, you see what look ...

Selling points: “This pony was bought as a project in the spring and has been professionally backed and schooled over the past few months. She is very gentle and loves being groomed, pampered and ...