Catskill Connemaras

Catskill Connemaras raises purebred Connemara ponies in the Northern Catskill Mountains near Bloomville, New York, roughly two hours from Albany. The program has roots going back to the late 1990s, when a halfbred gelding named Greystone McDickinson first sparked the family's love of the breed.

The farm is a family effort: breeder Heather Magnan, along with her husband Chad and daughter Willa, continues the prefix that Heather's mother, Pat Norton-White, established years earlier. That generational connection shapes the program's direction, with Heather selecting foundation mares through careful research and breeding them to the American Connemara Pony Society breed standard. Her focus centers on quality, temperament, and athletic ability — the three pillars that guide mare selection and pairing decisions.

Heather's involvement with the ACPS extends well beyond the farm itself. She served as ACPS Region 2 Chair and sat on the ACPS Board of Governors as Regional Governor for roughly a decade, giving the program a strong foothold in the broader Connemara pony community in New York and the Northeast. For those seeking Connemara ponies for sale in New York from a program with deep organizational ties to the breed, Catskill Connemaras represents a long-standing local option.

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