A Dusty Grey Pony is an in-depth study of the Connemara Pony breed in Australia. Illustrated with charts and photographs, and interspersed with many personal anecdotes, it details all of the stallion and mare families contained within the Connemara Pony Breeders' Society of Australia's studbook and traces the pedigrees back to the original ponies of the Irish studbook. Book 1 focuses on the ponies whose pedigrees can be traced back through the sire line to the first pony recorded in the Irish studbook, Cannon Ball.