- Connemara
- Grey
- Mare
- 7 years
- 14.3hh / 150cm
- By five-time Clifden winner Currachmore Cashel with outstanding traditional Irish Connemara breeding
- Easy to own and enjoy: Riding Club, hacking, camps, fun rides, BE and BS experience
- Beautiful grey Connemara mare with exceptional presence, substance and traditional Irish breeding
Daisy is a beautiful, substantial Connemara mare standing a full-up 148cm and officially FEI measured at 149.7cm in shoes. Although technically a pony, she rides very much as a small horse and takes up plenty of leg. She would be ideally suited to a competent teenager, small adult or Riding Club home looking for a quality all-round horse to enjoy a wide variety of activities.
Those seeking a full-up competition pony will appreciate her size, substance and quality, whilst buyers looking for a smaller first pony for a young child should be aware that Daisy is a big, powerful mare with plenty of ground cover and presence.
Daisy is a much-loved family horse who has been produced from a young age by my daughter after being imported from Ireland as a 4-year-old. She is only available due to my daughter moving off ponies, making this an extremely sad sale.
She is one of the easiest horses to have around the yard. Kind, straightforward and pleasant to handle, she is good to catch, load, travel and manage day to day. She regularly travels long distances to competitions and camps and is perfectly happy standing on and off the lorry throughout the day.
Daisy has a varied competition record including placings at BE80 level and numerous showjumping placings up to 90cm:
British Eventing
4th Little Gatcombe BE80
Top 10 Ascot Under Wychwood BE80
3rd Speetly BE80
3rd Offchurch Bury CC70
6th Howick BE80
9th Dauntsey BE80
Showjumping
Winner 90cm at Ponderosa
3rd 90cm at Ponderosa
3rd Newcomers at Beacons
4th in the 90cm at Beacons on two occasions
3rd WHPI 80cm in a large class
What makes Daisy special is not simply her competition record, but her versatility and enjoyment of life. She has happily turned her hoof to:
Beach rides
Forestry rides
Fun rides
Somerford camps
Eland Lodge camp
Cross-country schooling at Boomerang
Inter-Hunt Relay
General Riding Club activities
She hacks confidently and genuinely enjoys getting out and about. She is forward-going, fun and responsive, and is the sort of horse that enjoys having a job to do.
As with many quality young Connemaras, Daisy can occasionally be fresh and may throw the odd playful buck when excited. There is nothing nasty or malicious about her, but she is not suitable for a novice rider and is best suited to someone with a secure seat who enjoys a forward-thinking horse.
Daisy is also exceptionally well bred. She is by the renowned five-time Clifden-winning stallion Currachmore Cashel, whose pedigree includes influential Connemara bloodlines such as Carna Bobby, Leam Bobby Finn, Mac Namara and Bridge Boy.
Her dam line is equally impressive through Gloves Bobby, Abbeyleix Fionn, Silver Cloud, Bitter Lemon and Ormond Oliver, combining several respected traditional Irish Connemara families. She therefore offers not only quality as a riding horse, but also genuine future broodmare appeal.
To look at, Daisy is everything people love about the breed: a beautiful grey mare with a kind outlook, plenty of bone, excellent substance and a lovely feminine head. She invariably attracts admiring comments wherever she goes.
This is a genuinely heartbreaking sale of a horse who has been part of our family for many years. Finding the right home is far more important than a quick sale and we are looking for someone who will enjoy and appreciate her as much as we have.