Connemara Pony Research into Hoof Wall Separation Disease (HWSD)

HWSD is an unique, verifiable and testable disease. It should not be confused with any other hoof pathology. HWSD is a genetic autosomal recessive condition. There is a commercially available genetic test for the HWSD mutation. Although first detected in the Connemara Pony this condition is NOT exclusive to this breed. German Riding Ponies, Poney Selle Francais, American Miniature Horses, ISH, Gypsy Cob/Vanner, Irish Cob all carry this mutation.

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Friday, 24 October 2014

Rosewood Witchcraft receives posthumous award from the American Connemara Pony Society

At the recent Annual General Meeting of the American Connemara Pony Society Rosewood Witchcraft was awarded the "The purebred Connemara of the Year Award".

The citation reads as follows:

"The purebred Connemara of the Year Award went to Rosewood Witchcraft (ArdCeltic Art X Balmullo’s Rhiannon) for her contributions to solving the puzzle of HWSD, a genetic hoof wall disease. “Crafty” was the poster child of HWSD and was, additionally, the first case of HWSD seen by the geneticists at UCDavis, the institution that eventually solved the puzzle and now provides a test for carriers of the disease. Crafty contributed to not only the science, but also to the publicity and the fundraising. Sadly, though, because of the disease, she had to be put down before her third birthday. " Link to American Connemara Pony Society website

On the HWSS Facebook page, Crafty's owner and breeder Darian Hall, wrote the following:

"At this years annual ACPS Awards Banquet Rosewood Witchcraft (Crafty) was named ACPS Pony of the Year. It was bitter sweet as Crafty did not survive the condition. She became a poster child only because we went so public with her. However there were so many of you who put your effort, your time and money into this and so many of you who suffered to watch your ponies fall apart without the answer and you tried as hard as I did to find the answer. AND WE DID.

So Crafty's award belongs to all of you for your effort and dedication that has brought us this wonderful test. Crafty was born at the right time, in the right place and to someone who was not going to shut-up (me). But without all of you I would still be fishing in the dark.

Thank you so much CPRG."

On Sunday 29 September 2013, this blog paid tribute to Crafty on a page titled Vale for Crafty

The poster which Darian wrote for the Clifden meeting about Crafty can be seen here

By honouring Crafty in this way the ACPS once again demonstrates the pro-active stance which the Society adopted very early on in the research process. It is not widely known that the ACPS early in the fundraising process made a substantive monetary donation towards funding the research at UC Davis.

In response to requests, a French translation is now available for both formats of the information pamphlet.

MALADIE-DE-LA-SEPARATION-DE-LA-PAROI-DU-SABOT-A4-portrait-format

MALADIE-DE-LA-SEPARATION-DE-LA-PAROI-DU-SABOT-HOOF-WALL-SEPARATION-DISEASE-HWSD-Information-pamphlet-3-fold

Listed again are the links for the pamphlets:
Information-Pamphlet-3-fold-brochure-version
Information-pamphlet-on-Hoof-Wall-Separation-Disease-Portrait-page-format

HWSD Test Results page

Thursday, 9 October 2014

Blog hits reach 40,000 and other really important things.

Hits on the blog have now passed 40,000.

Below is the all time hits tally from the countries which made the Top Ten:

United States	11296
United Kingdom	5032
Germany	4136
Sweden	3386
Canada	1861
New Zealand	1650
Australia	1415
Ireland	1354
France	1125
Finland	838

There is no facility on the blog site to retrieve all of the figures from all of the countries from where the traffic has originated, which is a pity. From looking at the monthly totals the majority of the hits from Ireland and the UK have been over the past three months.

The CPRG has put together an updated version of the pamphlet which was written to be handed out at the Clifden meeting. The links to the pamphlet are listed below. You can download and print out the pamphlet yourself or pass the links and/or the download onto other people to share on any relevant websites.

There are two formats containing the same information:

The HWSD-Information-Pamphlet-3-fold-brochure-version is designed so that when printed back to back it is a brochure which folds into 3 panels.

The Information-pamphlet-on-Hoof-Wall-Separation-Disease-Portrait-page-format prints onto A4 as a straight two page document.

Saturday, 19 April 2014

Let's get Dr. Finno to Clifden 19 August 2014

The upcoming meeting at which Dr Finno will present the results of the genetic research into HWSS is exciting progress. As with everything, progress comes at a cost.

The Connemara Pony Research Group is an informal collection of people who came together in an effort to find the cause of HWSS. The research undertaken by the Bannasch Laboratory on the group's behalf was funded by member's donations, a grant from the American Connemara Pony Society Foundation and many public donations made to the Connemara DNA Research Fund, Centre for Equine Health, University of California Davis, USA.

Knowing that the result of the research and genetic test development is of importance to every Connemara pony owner or breeder, the decision was made to bring Dr Finno to Ireland to present the results of the research. The presentation will be of value and interest to veterinarians, farriers and Connemara pony breeders from across the world, many of whom will be attending 2014 Clifden Show Week and Sales.

The CPBS and the ICCPS were offered the opportunity to support this event at no monetary cost to either organisation. However neither of these two organisations has replied to their invitation.

We need to raise funds to pay the costs of getting Dr Finno to Ireland, her accommodation in Ireland, and associated costs of presenting this meeting. An application for funding support was made to Horse Sport Ireland but as the result of their own funding cuts, they were unable to help.

We need your help to raise the funds.

Should any organisation, business or private individual wish to be a named sponsor for this event, then please contact the group email

Several methods are available to make donations to the Dr Finno Travel Fund :

SEPA-banktransfer. Free of charge!
Recipient: B. Hellwig Connemara Pony Research Group
IBAN: DE35 5605 1790 0101 2347 71
BIC: MALADE51SIM
Bank name: KSK Rhein-Hunsrueck

Paypal (via cprg@web.de). 1.9% +35c will be taken from every donation

GoFundMe (+paypal). 7.9% +35c will be taken from every donation

The total donated funds will be updated on the barometer below.

Sunday 27 April.2014

Provided by

We are extremely delighted with the Euro500 donated by the German Connemara Pony Association (Connemara Pony Interessengemeinschaft) who have been great supporters of the research project from the outset and who are also managing the accounts on behalf of the Connemara Pony Research Group. Euro180 has been donated by several German breeders.

Provided by
Fund-Raising-Ideas-Center.com

Surplus Funds will be donated to:

Connemara DNA Research,

Centre for Equine Health,

UC Davis,

USA.

Sunday, 29 December 2013

Happy New Year

Happy New Year and Best Wishes to All.

With the advent of 2014 nearly upon us, all the research group looks forward to the release of the genetic test for HWSS.

There is some exciting news in the offing and we are waiting for all the details to be confirmed. As soon as these matters are attended to the news will be published on this blog.

In the meantime a review on the statistics over the past year proves for interesting reading. During the year, pageviews reached 20,000 18 months after the commencement of this site in November 2011.

The majority of the referrals to the site originate from Facebook, which gives an indication of the power of social media and networking in the global disbursement of information.

Referring URLs

Entry

Pageviews

http://www.facebook.com/

285

https://www.facebook.com/

281

http://connemara-pony.blogspot.com/

115

http://connemaraponny.ifokus.se/discussions/4e7c5b0cd4ebea5ef9001bdc-hoof-wall-separation-syndrome?discussions-1

112

http://connemaraponny.ifokus.se/discussions/4f6579ebd3b4fd6a930009db-rapport-frann-arsmotet-i-linkoping?discussions-1

101

http://r-e-f-e-r-e-r.com/connemara-pony.blogspot.com

http://connemaraponny.ifokus.se/discussions/4e7c5b0cd4ebea5ef9001bdc-hoof-wall-separation-syndrome

https://www.google.co.uk/

http://connemara.nu/?page_id=12

https://www.google.com/

Referring Sites

Entry

Pageviews

3521

1229

681

378

connemaraponny.ifokus.se

347

www.google.de

346

m.facebook.com

296

www.horseandhound.co.uk

193

connemara.nu

142

www.google.se

136

Search Keywords

Entry

Pageviews

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205

hoof wall separation syndrome

134

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Information about the posts and pages shows that the highest polling ones are the early posts/pages which explain the HWSS issue and those which reported the results of the research from the Bannasch Laboratory at UC Davis. Also apparent is that the effort, time, and money that went into the translations of the initial post on HWSS was warranted.