A Tale of Two Cities (sort of)

The Kingdom of Belgium is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations including NATO.
It covers an area of almost 12,000 square miles, and it has a population of about 10.7 million people.
Belgium is a federal state. There are three Regions in the country – the Flemish Region, the Walloon Region, and the Brussels-Capital Region.
The Flemish Region is largely Dutch speaking, while the Walloon Region is largely French speaking.
The linguistic split is also a divisive political one. Each Region has its own parliament, with the parliaments of the Flemish and Walloon Regions also representing those of Flemish or Walloon identity within the Brussels-Capital Region. Public institutions in Brussels therefore often offer a bewildering complexity.

The Connemara, as it does in so many different countries and climes around the world, is doing quite well in Belgium too. There is a Belgian Connemara Pony Society that only last year touted the success of the 14.1hh mare D’Jill in becoming the first European pony to win the British Society’s Performance Awards
The Belgian Society, however, became identified by breeders from the Walloon Region as being predominantly representative of the more northern, Flemish, breeders and ponies.

As a result of this, the Belgium ASBL Connemara Pony Association (BCPA) was founded in 2005 and was recognised by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Walloon Region.
The BCPA are not yet a member of the International Committee of Connemara Pony Societies.
The BCPA have been successful in organising their own shows and inspections over the intervening years, and keeps its own stud book.
Click on the the thumbnails below to have a closer look at Davidoff and Chamade de Renival, to ponies bred by Antoine Rens, one of the leading lights of the BCPA.

Davidoff de Renival

Chamade de Renival

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