GALWAY breeders and owners enjoyed success at the Connemara Pony Show in Clifden.

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

MORE than 8,000 people are expected to attend the celebrated Connemara Pony Show at Clifden, Co Galway, on August 20.

IT IS an absorbing story of a celebrated pony breed with origins going back 2,500 years to the days of the Celtic warriors, and intriguing links old and new to a prince of the past and a Knight of the present.

THE supreme champion at the Connemara Pony Show was bred and owned by a local man, Henry O’Toole, Faulkeeragh, Clifden. Castle Urchin is by Abbeyleix Owen out of Castle Dame, and was also chosen as the confined champion of the show and the best mare aged eight to nine years.

THE sun came out for the celebrated Connemara Pony Show at Clifden in Co Galway yesterday after the heavy rain of recent weeks.

THE celebrated Connemara Pony Show went ahead in glorious weather at Clifden in Co Galway yesterday after a night of heavy rain.