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JAM897
Stoneybrook Finn MacCool
Connemara Show
Glenwood Park
Middleburg VA
2011
by Jennifer

A life without horses is possible, but pointless

life is short go riding



our Miss Shorty Chelsea 19 years old and Finn MacCool

The Connemara Pony is a pony breed originating in Ireland. They are known for their athleticism, versatility and good disposition. The breed makes excellent show ponies.

The Connemara region in County Galway in western Ireland, where the breed first became recognized as a distinct type, is a very harsh landscape, thus giving rise to a pony breed of hardy, strong individuals. Some believe that the Connemara developed from Scandinavian ponies that the Vikings first brought to Ireland. Another source was likely the Irish Hobby, a now-extinct breed established prior to the 13th century. Legend, however, says that galleons from the Spanish Armada ran aground in 1588, and the Andalusians on board were set loose. Th...

Welcome to Dressage Design ~ our Equestrian division of JAMART Photography. I have loved horses my whole life. I had a room full of Breyer statues and my Dad would take me trail riding whenever he could afford it. I grasped every opportunity to be around horses and when I couldn't, I would draw them. Throughout High School and College I worked at several barns cleaning stalls, grooming and tacking up horses, just to afford riding lessons. Marriage, family and a job transfer distracted me for about ten years. In 1996, my husband, Joe, brought horses into my life with the gift of riding lessons for my 30th birthday. Sometimes I think he dreads that gift, because it has been all about horses since then. Our two beautiful daughters...