Breed Characteristics
Hard & inflexible by having the short back & sloping, muscular croup. A tail come right. A shoulder is sloped & yearn, thus it have a skillful stride length, & a pony has short, tough cannons & hard feet. the Connemarthe has the mulct head by using little ears & a straight profile assault a easily-arched neck.

A Connemara stands between 13-14.Two hh, although occasionally come taller, & so non technically ponies. A breed comes around gray, overmuch, 'last, blacken, dun, chestnut, & from time to time roan. Pinto is non accepted.

A ponies come steadfast, however gentle. It is fantabulous sport ponies, existence nimble, agile, & convenient. A ponies come hard, & possess neat endurance.

History of the Connemara
Occasionally guess that a Connemara is from either a Scandinavian ponies that a Vikings foremost brought to Ireland. Legend, notwithstanding, says that galleons from either a Spanish Armada ran aground within 1588, & a Andalusians on board were set free. A Spanish horses breed using a native index, filtration a local ponies. A coarse lands mass produced these horses into healthy, heavy souls.

For nature & severity and staying power, Arabian blood was added in the 1700s. It were likewise crossed by owning Hackneys and Thoroughbreds in the 1900s. A breed has as well experienced infusions of Barb, Spanish Jennet, and Welsh Pony blood. Notable entire include: Golden Glen, foaled around 1932 Rebel, foaled within 1922 Round shot, foaled inside 1904, of Welsh & Connemara bloodlines, was a foremost entire entered in the Connemara stud book. Carna Dun: foaled within 1948 per Thoroughbred Little Heaven Mayboy: an Irish Draft Stallion Clonkeehan Auratum: Arabian stallion foaled in 1954 Dynamite: the Welsh stallion

Yet, overmuch cross-breeding began to dilute a pony bloodlines, and then a Connemara Pony Breeders’ Society, founded inside 1920, worked to preserve a nature and severity. A stud book was established around 1926.

Now a ponies survive everthing through a world. It is ridden by two kids & adults, & excel all told sport horse competition, including dressage, show jumping, eventing, and camping.

Famous Connemaras
A Nugget: the Fifteen hh Connemara gelding world health organization, at the International Horse Indicate inside London, within 1935, cleared a '''Septenary' Deuce" jump, at the age of 22. He also won over 300 international prizes.

Littlesquire: Won the Open Championship at Madison Square Garden in 1939, clearing fences over 7 feet tall. Known "a littlest horse sustaining a large heart," he only stood 13.2 hh.

Dundrum: A 15 hh Connemara gelding who set a record at the Welberly Horse of the Year Show after clearing a 7' 2" puissance wall, so making him a Supreme Champion at a Horse of the Month indicate. A little horse too was known as indicate jumper of a century when winning 5 cases at a Dublaround Horse Indicate in 1961 (the foremost instance & so several awards got been won by of these rider or even of these horse), and was International Jumping Champion from either 1959-1963.

Stroller''': Xiv.I hh half-Connemara. He was the exclusively pony ever to compete in the Olympic Games, fallowing becoming a member of the 1968 British Team once ridden by Marion Coakes. He received the single silver, just quaternion points behind the gold medalist, & was just one of ii horses to go for it a clear spherical therein Olympic Games, clearing a Sextuplet' Ten" puissance.

Marcus Aurelius: A Connemara/Thoroughbred cross, who competed in the 1975 Pan American Games with rider Mary Anne Tauskey as part of the US Equestrian Team. The team went on to win the gold medal in Three Day Eventing.

Seldom Seen and Last Scene: ridden by Lendon Gray, these two Connemara/Thoroughbreds are international dressage horses.

'''Custusha's Cashel Rock''': Won the An Tostal and Camlin Trophies, as well as won gold medals in Hunter, Jumper, Dressage and Combined Training from the ACPS. Was the Champion Connemara In-Hand at Woodstock in 1977-1979. Won Champion awards from the Washington States Horseman's Council in dressahe, adult amateur hunter and jumper, small hunter, and working hunter in open competition. Won the Championship in the US Combined Training Association (now US Eventing Association) Area VII Adult Training Level and the US Dressage Federation's All-Breed first place in First Level Dressage in 1988. Was also made into a Breyer horse model in 1990.

'''Hideaway's Erin Go Bragh''': With his rider, Carol Koslowski, the stallion won the 1991 MCTA Horse Trials at the Preliminary Level. Later that year, won the Groton Horse Trials against several Olympic riders. In 1995, won 3 second-level classes at the Lake Erie College Dressage show. Later won the Open Intermediate Division at the Fair Hill and Middleburg Horse Trials. Was AHSA's ZOne 2 Advanced Horse Trials for 1995, and was the USCTA's Connemara of the Year. The stallion is now in the breeding shed producing extremely talented offspring.

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