Winning ponies take centre stage at Clifden’s Connemara Pony Show

THERE will be a sense of bringing it all back home at the Connemara Pony Show in Clifden, Co Galway, on Thursday.

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 by Anthony McCormack, Mullingar, and ridden by 16-year-old Kellie Allen from Kells, Co Meath, took gold in the individual show jumping.