Gallery

Bella, cob filly. May 2010.

Aoife. Foaled 2009. Yearling daughter of Midas and Sally's Joy.

Danaan and Milís. Yearlings born 2009.

On Fairy Hill.

Visitor, Mountain Rose ( by Maam Hill ), aged 24, and her daughter by

Donegreagh Cuach na Scamaill. May 2010.

Visitor, Fell x Connemara mare ex Sweet Lass, and her colt by D.Cuach

na Scamaill. May 2010.

Summer days.

Colt foals together. Sunshine and Reuben. 2009.

Hollydene, September 2011.

Filly by Gowna Bay ex Thunder Bird. Her great- grandsire is Thunderbolt, twice.

Rose

The Bay Girls.

Rosie relaxes during her pedicure...., and if you knew Rosie, that was some magic !

Notice the stand Oleg is using, which was designed by an American Farrier. The horse's leg is supported without the usual backbreaking strain on the farrier. The stand is called 'Hoof-jack', and you can find details about it on the website www.hoofjack.com . It has magnets on the upright, to hold the rasp and knife handy for use. There is a cradle for resting the pastern, interchangeable with a rubber tipped bar to use when the hoof is forward for rasping the hoof edges.

Cahersherkin Pride during her "Miss World" duties. after winning the first ever Connemara Brood Mare Class at the RUAS in 2006, Pride was called upon for civic duties....

Here she joined the dignitaries at the launch ceremony for The Country Comes to Town Festival, held at Oxford Island, Kinnego, Lurgan. The Mayor of Craigavon, Councillor George Savage, had the honour of meeting Pride, while CCtT Chairman, Mr.Mervyn Carrick, greeted Mr.Eddie Harkness, his counterpart from the Lurgan and District Horse and Cattle Show Society.

The official photographer for this prestigious event seemed somewhat puzzled by my request to 'wait for the mayor's ears', before pressing the shutter....perhaps he was unaware of the word for female in equine terminology.....

Cahersherkin Pride day after Balmoral Show in Black & White Photograph.

Niamh, I think Pride needs a huge hug too! Not just Tilly !

(Left - Right, Tilly, cousin Niamh, and Pride.)

Watercolour of Cregduff Match.

(a.k.a. Róisín)

It has again been proven that Connemaras can outrun Thoroughbreds!!!! You must have heard of Cannon Ball, No.1 in the Connemara Stud Book. He regularly beat all comers when racing on the strands in the west of Ireland ! It seems that ability has not been lost in the intervening generations !

( Cahersherkin Pride puts the daughter of a two time Gold Cup winner to shame!)

That's not a Connemara, its a Kerry Bog Pony !

Breeze belongs to friends of ours, Ivan and Pauline Lonsdale. She came over for a bit of training in 2006, and in 2008, became a mum !

Cian and his part-bred cousin, later named Benvarden Star, in the fields of Donegreagh townland.

Beach at Ballyconneely near Clifden, Connemara, taken August 2006.

Photo of the Twelve Bens Mountain Range, Connemara, taken August 2006.

Photo of a Mountain near Bunowen Castle Clifden, Connemara, taken August 2006. This is the landscape familiar to Grainnuaile - Grace O'Malley, the pirate queen of Connemara. A contemporary of England's Queen Elizabeth, her life is celebrated in a suite composed by Sean Davey. The ruins of Bunoowen castle overlook the farm now occupied by Connemara breeder, Bobby Bolger.

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