Connemara ponies find true love on the web

THEY say it’s all in the breeding – and now for Connemara ponies, the breeding is in the computer!Because a new database of all registered Connemara ponies in the world is set to plot the way for the breeding of an even better specimen of the breed in the future – and it will all be based on pressing the right buttons.The new database which is now being finalised will show a mountain of detail about each and every animal – who his equine father and mother were and where the family tree originated and sprung forth from. The benefit of this to breeders is that they will be able to avoid breeding a mare and stallion that are too close in blood relation terms.According to the experts and to...