Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Village Ponies

Funeral of Paddy King in 2004 with Village Ponies being led in front of hearse

 Paddy King of the Village Pony Line   Village Grey photos are by Sophie Felix
In Lehid near Ballyconneely, in the early 1940’s, the late Paddy King unknowingly founded a pony dynasty.  The King family had always had a working pony and cart [...]

Village Star and some of her family

Village Star
  

 Village Star was the third of Village Belle’s foals.  She was born in 1971 and was by Killyreagh Kim.  She won the Archbishops Cup at Clifden for Paddy King in ’75 but by the time she was a seven year old she had not produced a foal, Star was sold to Henry O’Toole – [...]