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ORIGINS
The Connemara Pony is Ireland's only native breed. Renown for their hardiness, agility, versatility, intelligence and a natural jumping ability.The history of the Connemara pony is thought to date back to the arrival of the Celts to Ireland in the fourth century B.C., who brought the ponies to Connemara with them.
Legend has it the when the Spanish Armada sank off the coast of Connemara in the sixteenth century, the Spanish Barb horses swam ashore and bred with the native ponies running wild on the Connemara mountains.
BREED CHARACTERISTICS Height: 133cms - 150cms (average 138cms - 148cms)
Colour: Grey, Dun, Black, Bay, Brown with the occasional Roan, Chestnut, Palomino and dark - eyed Cream.
Type: compact, well balanced type with depth, substance and good heart room, standing on short legs and covering a lot of ground.
Head: Well balanced pony head of medium length with good width between large, kindly eyes. Pony ears, well defined cheekbones, jaw relatively deep but not coarse or heavy.
Front: Head well set onto neck. Good length of rein. Well defined withers and a good sloping shoulder. The neck should not be set on too low or the crest over-developed.
Body: Body should be deep, with a strong back, some length allowed but should be well ribbed up and with strong loins.
Limbs: Good length and strength in the forearm, well defined knees and short cannons with flat bone measuring 18cms - 21cms. Elbows should be free, pasterns of medium length, feet well shaped of medium size, hard and level.
Hindquarters: Strong and muscular with some length, well developed second thigh and strong low set hocks.
Movement: free and true with undue knee action, active and covering the ground well.
C V Cashel - National Dressage Championships Wicklow 2005 Ridden by Pauline McLaren
Kind, beautiful, hardy, intelligent, athletic, strong.........
Suitable to be ridden by child or adult.
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Family Friend
or best friend..............
