Fair to celebrate the Connemara Pony

Fair to celebrate the Connemara Pony

Legend also has it that when the Spanish Armada sank off the west coast, the horses on board swam to shore and bred with the native ponies running wild in the mountains, writes Ray Ryan.

A search on Google for the iconic Connemara Pony breed will yield about 6.3 million results in 35 seconds.

That is just one indication of the global popularity of Ireland’s only native pony breed, whose origins go back some 2,500 years to the pre-Christian era when there was no such thing as surfing the net.

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