CONNEMARA Pony breeder Jarleth Grogan lives at Bekan, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, with his wife Margaret daughter Joanne and granddaughter Darcy.

He got his first Connemara Pony in 1993. She was a jet black mare named Carravilla Pride (Island Hurricane-Primrose), foaled in 1985, which he bought from Liam Walsh on the advice of Patrick McNamara from Belmount Stud. She produced a few lovely foals but only one was black. She died in 2011.