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 ...

In Connemara they say it's the day when summer begins to fade and the first shadows of autumn loom somewhere behind the hills. There is no precise date for the Connemara Pony Show in Clifden but it's ...

But the hardy ponies, with origins believed to go back 2,500 years to the days of the Celtic warriors, have typically endured much more than the vagaries of the weather. Minister of State Frank Fahey, ...

The Connemara Pony Heritage Centre, located within Connemara National Park in County Galway, has officially opened, drawing a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK’s first prestige Connemara pony sale will take place in Worcestershire this September. The sale is part of Brightwells’ Festival of the Horse sale at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, ...

Connemara gelding Grey’s Village Melody melted hearts at this year’s British Connemara Pony Society breed show when he was spotted carrying a three-year-old jockey in the show ring, on his debut in a ...

Breeding Connemara ponies is not just confined to Ireland and is now an international industry. There are Connemara Pony Associations in 11 different countries. Many of these associations are ...

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 ...

At Nevins Farm, a facility operated by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Methuen, six ponies have been spending their days nibbling on fresh hay, dipping their ...