AS a child, I worked our small family farm with my father and developed an interest in the Connemara pony. I bought my first Connemara pony, Spencer’s Dream, for £80 in 1968 and never looked back. I spent from 1971 until 1992 in the United States and then, myself, wife Barbara and our four children moved back from San Francisco to Galway in 1992.

Ballybawn Cashel, by Boden Park Finnard, was the pony that started my stud in 1993.