Windy Isles Farms

22/04/2022

Our friends over at Parkmore Irish Horse Imports have this fantastic pony available.

🇮🇪 to 🇺🇲

🦄 Alert!

Pebbles is a 7yr Purebred Connemara gelding. Just under 15 hands. He has done a little bit of everything: hunted, 1.10m hunter derbies, evented with a young girl. Most recently competed in the Interschools making it to the jump off.

Wellbred he is by I Love You Melody out of an Ashfield Festy mare and is N/HWSD.

Pebbles is your do it all and have fun while doing it pony. He has been ridden by a variety of riders from beginner to experienced, adults and juniors, and takes care of them all. He knows his job and loves it.

Safe. Sane. Bombproof. Confidence builder and baby sitter type. No stop, spook, or buck. Easy in all ways on the ground. Plenty of scope to take you up the levels.

Truly a special pony that has been well produced by his breeder.

Includes all import costs

Videos:
https://youtu.be/eYg-I71Gysk (flat)
https://youtu.be/KCosDY3eSsc (jumping and cross country)

17/02/2022

Just TWO Days of bidding left for the 3rd Annual ACPS Stallion Service Auction! The last few hours will be entertaining to follow, so if you intend to bid, you'd better create your account and *watch* your favorite stallions NOW!

There are 22 breeding opportunities available and there is a stallion for everyone and every mare! Jumpers, hunters, eventers, foxhunters and driving ponies. Premium stallions. Stallions that are proven producers of super performance ponies. DON'T MISS OUT! Bidding closes on the eve of 02/19!

https://www.barnlog.com/auctions/ACPS22/

30/12/2021

From "The Pony Book" by Jeff Green c 1966 early history on the Connemara in America.

22/12/2021

Connemara history from Best of Breed: The Champion Horses of the American Continent by Bonny Walford c. 1971

13/12/2021

Our friends at Parkmore have the fantastic Annie for sale 🥰

10/11/2021

Our friends at Parkmore have this lovely mare available!

30/10/2021

No tricks.

Just treats.

Fabulous chance to grab a breeding from Sly or Fintan at Blackwing Connemaras. 🎃

🎃👻Spooktacular Breeding Discounts on our purebred Connemara stallions!! 💀🎃Extended Halloween Weekend Only! $250 off 2022’s stud fee!

Choose either Wildwych Wily Casanova aka Sly or Blue Rock Fintan (or both!) for $250 off of their regular stud fee. Signed contract with booking fee must be received by midnight Nov 1. (Stud fee due when ordering semen next year.) Shipped semen and live cover available. Breeding must be initiated in 2022. LFG. Message or email [email protected] for discounted breeding contract or any questions you have! Picture is Fintan with Melissa Mayo in October of 2019.

More info on both boys: www.blackwingponies.com

Quick Sly video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8mup7ts/

Quick Fintan video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8mu74j9/
Also Fintan: https://youtu.be/4HQkdBvUWiM

30/10/2021

Super selection of Connemara and crosses available from our friends at Parkmore.

25/10/2021

Massive congrats to Jennifer and SS Willow (*The Quietman x Vegas Alarm by Darn That Alarm xx) winning their division this weekend! Such a fantastic team!

04/10/2021

*Located in Kentucky*

Utopias Stan the Man is a 5yr 15.3 Connemara Halfbred gelding sired by *The Quietman.

Super all rounder. Fantastic brain. Hacks out alone or in company. Great shape over a fence and lovely mover. Shown at a CT - won his class and a one day at the Kentucky Horse Park where he was very well behaved and finished middle of the pack in a large class.

Can't say enough good things about this guy he is just a fun horse and so easy to be around. Would be ideal for PC, a competent adult amateur or even a professional to take up the levels.

PM for more information.

Price ✌️🤚0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

Video:
https://youtu.be/rIsy0DbpHiM

29/09/2021

Lovely gelding available for import

25/09/2021

Friends at Parkmore are at Stableview International this weekend. 🇮🇪

12/09/2021

Friends at Parkmore have this fantastic gelding available. Proven show record. Point and shoot. Just a truly lovely horse.

06/09/2021

3'3 at 13.3 🦄 ☘️

Blue Rock Emerald Princess (Windy Isles Island Prince x Blue Rock Molly by *The Quietman) super little mare!

The future is so bright for this team ❤️

05/09/2021

Super Connemara x Irish Sporthorse available for import

04/09/2021

Lovely horses on offer by our friends at Parkmore

04/09/2021

Massive congrats to Jen and Willow! Well done!!

Congratulations to Jennifer Coleman and her halfbred SS Willow (*The Quietman x Vegas Alarm) on their 8th place finish at AEC’s in the Training Horse division! 🍀🦄

26/08/2021

Eddy is a fabulous Connemara x Irish Sporthorse gelding available to import by our friends at Parkmore.

23/08/2021

Hi all, Connemara fanciers with the support of the American Connemara pony society are looking into the issue of Connemaras imported to the United States and then never registered and lost to the breed.

If you could take a moment to fill out this brief survey we would appreciate it as we work to figure out ways to make sure all Connemaras are registered and recognized.

Survey is closed thank you!

22/08/2021

I wrote this a year ago but as misinformation continues it bears repeating.

Pictured:
The Hooves of a HWSD Affected (tested HWSD/HWSD pony).

And if you didn't know about the disease you'd think what? Maybe some chipping? Needs shoes?

This pony is sound and healthy. Just needs shoes and a regular shoeing schedule (like any other pony). (Oh and obviously this pony is alive currently at the ripe old age of 8).

Since the fear mongers are making the rounds again:

"It’s a genetic mutation which causes ponies with two copies of the gene to have hooves that fall apart.

There’s a test which can STOP anymore ponies ever suffering with this. It’s a death sentence for most."

Wrong.

Let me be clear. HWSD is a disease.

It is a disease we need to take seriously. To work toward eradicating from our gene pool and we are lucky that it is a simple recessive so we will have an easier time than most do in other breeds or types of animals (dogs, cats) with their own health issues.

It is not a death sentence for most.

Stop spreading fear mongering information.

HWSD occurs on a range of severity from mild (need shoes and a regular schedule) such as the pony pictured to moderate to severe and yes that severity can necessitate a pony being put down.

Rosewood Witchcraft known as "Crafty" was the poster child for HWSD in the States. She was an extremely severe case. But her case is not the norm. This is a disease that has been in the breed a very, very long time. I've spoken to long time breeders who remember Ponies with feet like this going back decades. It wasn't until the perfect storm occurred in the 00s in Canada and to a lesser extent New Zealand that breeders started to realize we had an issue. That communication and push led to research. That research to the tests we have today.

But the messaging has been a diaster pretty much everywhere but North America and that will harm the breed long term.

There are HWSD ponies who are jumping and competing, there are HWSD ponies being school ponies.

Fear mongering helps no one and does not spread accurate information.

Clear ponies are great.

Carrier ponies are valuable to the breed and must be retained to avoid loss of diversity and lines.

The fact I've seen bias against them is a failure of messaging and information. It is flat out bad science.

I've known Affected ponies I would breed in a heart beat because the rest of the pony is fantastic and we can work toward Clear in a few generations without loss of genetic diversity and viability.

Good, correct education only helps breeders.

Only helps the breed.

HWSD is far from a death sentence "for most."

Carriers are as healthy as any other pony and can be bred to Clear with no issue

We cannot lose our genetic viability and diversity.

HWSD is just one piece of the puzzle.

So be informed not fearful; and be open and transparent about your ponies status and breed with care the best pony to the best pony.

And yes that can mean a carrier x clear breeding.

I've bred Carrier ponies.

I've bred *to* Carrier ponies.

I would do it a million times.

21/08/2021

Lovely Irish Draught gelding available with a bunch of foxhunting experience.

🇮🇪 to 🇺🇸

9yr purebred Irish Draught gelding, Harry, is by Fast Silver.

Harry 16.1 hands straight and correct. Has been well hunted for several seasons now, showjumped, and schooled extensively cross country.

He has been well produced, knows his job and does it well, and will make a lovely partner.

Easy to handle in every way.

Full set of X-rays Available (Done November 2020).

Videos:
https://youtu.be/5A68wBeO2x8 *NEW*
https://youtu.be/4lP-RizMQfQ
https://youtu.be/mbo9grHmX1k
https://youtu.be/L5Uf6KNxZQI

Just Under Mid Fives To Land

20/08/2021

Article about Connemara Ponies from 1938

From Native and British Riding Pony champions of yesteryear

20/08/2021

Cree

There is something
So special
About Connemaras
A family affair
Bloodlines passed down
From Grandfather
To Granddaughter
Father to Son
Tracing Lineage
And story
Dreams brought
To the future
Carried forward
From the past

Where else do you get
A breed
10 generations
Deep in horses
And 4 in human?

A pony
A time capsule
A piece of history
A work of art
Shaped
By a family's hands

The look
Of love
In an eagle eyed stallion
The tranquil gaze
Of a mare

Here I am
There you are
A people
A pony
Interwoven

19/08/2021

Windy Isles Guinness Twist (Triple Twist xx x Arbor Lanes Bailey by *Gunsmoke) 2012 halfbred gelding

07/08/2021

Thanks Facebook for the memory.

Harwells Jenny Wren (Maam Hill x Anna's Girl by Ormond Oliver) 1988-2017.

I was twelve when Martin went up to Mayo and came back down with two mares - Jenny and her daughter Diamond - Jenny's Venetian Diamond (by Holiday Archfield). Jenny was in foal to Derrigragh Robin and that following spring foaled a c**t who would later go on to be a Grade C jumper in Ireland.

In total she bred 14 foals. Two went overseas - Diamond to Sweden and another daughter to France. She bred several foals by Catamaran for us.

Jenny was the epitome of a Connemara - tons of personality, kind, 100% pony. Remember we had her for five years and Martin wondered if she had ever been ridden. Up I went ba****ck with a halter and leadrope and Jenny never put a foot wrong. The best mother. Game for anything. Grandpa took her to a local show once and Jenny turned it on in the ring, coming home with a red rosette.

Everything a Connemara should be. A broodmares broodmare. In the field she passed away in there were four generations leading back to her.

The Grand Dame.

05/08/2021

Absolutely super Halfbred Connemara to import from our partners at Parkmore.

05/08/2021

Watch this space ;) have some lovely horses and ponies coming available.

28/07/2021

Fleur Bryan of Parkmore Irish Imports will be in Ireland the next two weeks sourcing horses for clients.

We also have a selection of top quality Connemaras, Irish Draught, and Irish Sporthorses available to import.

Please PM me if you are looking for something in particular and we can see what we have to suit.

Short Showcase Selection is as follows:

🍀 Fairy, 4yr ISH mare Golden Master x Cranagh Hero 16.2 bay.

This mare is a dream. Last 5 shows double clear at the 90-1m level. Quiet and easy. Ridden by an older lady rider. Plenty of scope.

Videos:
https://youtu.be/N2QG27CVGL0
https://youtu.be/IsQYfslBw58
https://youtu.be/BsH9v0jGmtw
https://youtu.be/vOWugtiaiao
https://youtu.be/lNSOO02vFFE
https://youtu.be/1wj-rWHOF4g

🍀 Nellie is a 17 hand grey 4yr Irish Sporthorse mare. Well schooled and produced. Very wellbred mare by Carrick Kilderrys Diamond and linebred on Flagmount Diamond. Has schooled banks, water, ditches. Scope for days make her an excellent upper level prospect.

Videos:
https://youtu.be/XjwQ_9Odb6sE
https://youtu.be/xk_l43pF70A

🍀 Robin 4yr 16.2 bay gelding by Carrick Diamond Lad. Serious upper level prospect. Tons of scope and super athletic. He has been very well and carefully produced.

Video: https://youtu.be/t_Puz86AfrU