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useful animals admirably adapted for all hill-farm work and for 

 carrying deer. The colours are black, brown, dun, piebald, black 

 and white, brown and white, bay, and a few grey mixed or dappled. 



THE CONNEMARA PONY. 



The Connemara ponies are bred in the rough hilly district of the 

 same name in the West of Ireland where the breed has existed for 

 centuries. As in some other pony breeds there is a good deal of 

 variation in size and type representing differences of environment 

 and varying proportions of the blood of other races. A description 

 of what is regarded as the typical Connemara pony is given in the 

 Polo and Riding Pony Society's Stud Book from which the 

 following is abstracted : 



The Connemara pony should be intelligent, active, and enduring, 

 presenting the outline of a long, low, powerful animal covering a lot 

 of ground. The action should be good and straight ; the colour 

 yellow-dun, grey, or bay ; the height from 13 to 14 hands, with the 

 croup as high as the withers. The head should be large rather 

 than fine, with large eyes ; the ears small and pointed ; the distance 

 between the occipital crest and the eye relatively great, and the 

 distance between the eyes from 7^ to 8 inches. The neck should be 

 strong and of medium length ; the shoulders somewhat straight ; 

 the withers of moderate height ; the body long and deep, mounted 

 on short stout legs. A good back, powerful loins, slightly drooping 

 rounded quarters, well-developed breech, short hard flat " bone " 

 measuring from 6^ to 7i inches below the knee, and wide open 

 well-formed hoofs, are characteristics of a good specimen of the 

 breed. 



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