Merle-Smith Sporthorses

17/07/2025

If you’re gonna have stallions, train yo’self some stallions who can group lesson and hack out together. 💪😘 (Oh, and I suppose also stand for a photo unattended 😅)
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Our wonderful 16yo summer working students and ._eq aboard and and me on !!
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We’ve been so crazy busy here for the last 6 weeks, I have a lot of posting to catch up on!! Stay tuned for MOREEEEE 😎😎😎

19/06/2025

68.591% for in First Level test 1! 🥉
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67.885% for Training Level test 1! 🥇
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Thank you to his owners Laura and Steve Parker for this opportunity!! What a stallion! 😍
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PS— When they try to scratch their nose for the duration of your stretchy circle, you get scored a 5… 😅🤦🏻‍♀️
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10/06/2025

**CHECK IT OUT**
Extremely proud to share Blue’s adventure from this past weekend!!

10/06/2025

Merle-Smith Sporthorses is ISO evening barn help mucking stalls!
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Come make some extra cash as a side gig for a couple hours each night. $20/hr for 18-26 horses.
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Please text me, Nikki, at 434.953.7980

03/06/2025

MSS and Black Fox Farm Sporthorses would like to share new photos and videos of ✨BFF RAVEN SPY✨ (Full brother to Skyfall)
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2022 gelding by Raven Sky, out of BFF Cypher. He is 7/8 Thoroughbred, 1/8 Clyde (87.5% TB)
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BFF Cypher is by BFF Incognito. She competed up to Prelim and CCI** before having several lovely amateur friendly babies. Her sire, “Coggie,” competed up to Prelim and also foxhunted extensively with his amateur owner. Coggie is also the sire of Colleen Rutledge’s long time 5 Star horse, Covert Rights!
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Spy stands at 15.3, and his string test suggests he will finish about 16.1hh. He has bone and width to be substantial, but has plenty of TB to cover all your bases. He is a perfect 👌 ammy prospect! He will be started under saddle in June, and his 🥕 will increase.
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Low five figures, starting with a two.
[email protected]
VIDEO — https://youtu.be/LreMU2c7qjQ?si=SzsbysYvyGvzudI3
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03/06/2025

MSS and Black Fox Farm Sporthorses would like to introduce ✨BFF SKYFALL✨ to the world!
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2023 gelding by Raven Sky, out of BFF Cypher. He is 7/8 Thoroughbred, 1/8 Clyde (87.5% TB)
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BFF Cypher is by BFF Incognito. She competed up to Prelim and CCI** before having several lovely amateur friendly babies. Her sire, “Coggie,” competed up to Prelim and also foxhunted extensively with his amateur owner. Coggie is also the sire of Colleen Rutledge’s long time 5 Star horse, Covert Rights!
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This boy is already 15.3, and his string test suggests he will finish over 17hh. He is so sweet, sensible, and ATHLETIC!!
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While he would make an incredible amateur horse for any discipline, I see him just loping around the Maryland Five Star at some point.
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If no one snaps him up, I’m keeping him for myself. 😈
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Low five figures, starting with a two.
[email protected]
VIDEO — https://youtu.be/WwUEFJhQNAI?si=k_5ON1L2a_hEDp6p
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01/06/2025

If anyone is interested in meeting them, my boys BSF Golden Snitch - Connemara Stallion and Manu Forti's Blue Clover - C1 Irish Draught Stallion will be showing in the low jumper division tomorrow at CVSJA — from about 9-10am!

29/05/2025

Well, we have an interesting situation here… my WONDERFUL 19 year old Thoroughbred foxhunting mare, EMPRESS LISA (also known as ANGEL THE HUNT HORSE), is 14 days in foal today. 🎉 I am so thankful because she was injured while out hunting last season and most likely will not be ridable ever again. 😢
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So far, she has given me my incredible 6yo 🦄 stallion, by Concerto Grosso, and the first ever foal on the ground by named Raven Skywalker, now (a 5yo gelding and) at Green Creek hunting.
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I have always wanted a foal out of her so we started in April by trying to breed her to him. She did not catch, but none of the mares we bred that weekend did.
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She came back into heat and as we had multiple mares to breed that day, we had multiple stallions available to use….
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I can’t believe I am telling the world this, but you all know I don’t keep secrets when it comes to this stuff. We bred Angel with both Snitch and Blue with hopes that the theory of competing swimmers would work.
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Who knows if that was the real reason, and who knows who the daddy is at the time, 😅 but what we do know is that Angel has a 14 day embryo!!! I can’t tell you how ecstatic am about this cross, no matter who is the sire.
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Angel needs to have more babies. She is an incredible hunt horse, a fantastic and careful jumper, a gorgeous mover, and a wonderful momma — an overall phenomenal mare.
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If baby is anything other than chestnut, we will automatically know who is the father — otherwise, it’s off to Jerry Springer!! 😅
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📸 Photos in order—
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#2, #3 — EMPRESS LISA (AKA Angel the Hunt Horse) pictured at age 16 competing in the Virginia Field Hunter Championships.
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#4 — - 16.1hh 8yo Irish Draught stallion
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#5 — BSF Golden Snitch - 14.2hh 8yo Connemara stallion
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#6 — CHINGGIS KHAN - 6yo 16.2hh Oldenburg stallion out of Angel, by Concerto Grosso
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#7 — RAVEN SKYWALKER - 5yo 16.1hh Thoroughbred gelding out of Angel, by Raven Sky
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28/05/2025

We are SO EXCITED for the arrival of Chinggis Khan’s FIRST FOAL!!!
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Congratulations to Liz King, MFH at Farmington Hunt Club, on your beautiful redheaded FILLY!!! 🦄

Congratulations to Liz Anderson on the arrival of your new filly!

Sired by Chinggis Khan

25/05/2025

Virginia Hound Show 2025 was held on probably the most gorgeous day in the last 40 years according to Grosvenor.
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The Keswick Hunt Club hounds did very well in their classes!
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As always, it is the best time seeing all our favorite foxhunting friends from afar! See you all soon enough! 🥰
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24/05/2025

TWO BLACK DOTS TO REPORT!! ⚫️⚫️
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We are so excited to announce two 14-15 day pregnancies for CABIN SOCIETY “Jumbie” and GALLO’S CORIANDRUM “Cora!!” (details below)
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We have had difficulty getting Cabin Society (Jumbo x Bluejean Society xx [Imp Society]) in foal for the last two years. We’ve tried all sorts of different things. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This time, it worked!! And she has been bred to Manu Forti’s Blue Clover (Touch of the Blues x Prescott’s Magnolia [The Pride of Gloster]).
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After two shipments from Florida, we FINALLY have a 👍 for Gallo’s Coriandrum (Willow’s Art of Kells x Cady O’Daly Clare [Tre Awain Goldsmith]) and WH Topgun (Gunsmoke x Ballywhim Candace [Greystone Dallen Mcmor]).
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Photos 📸 are in order—
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#3, #4 — Irish Sport Horse Cabin Society, who competed through Preliminary with Daryl Kinney and has foxhunted with us. She has a 5yo daughter with showing with her amateur owner, a 4yo stallion son with Raven Sky, a 3yo daughter with Cerulean Nightlife, and a yearling daughter with
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#5 — Jumbo - Advanced eventing and foxhunting Irish Draught stallion. Producer of many many Olympic and household name TOP eventers.
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#6, #7 — (Irish Draught) going side saddle with me yesterday during our big marketing photo shoot!! He also competes in dressage, jumpers, eventing, with hopes of foxhunting this fall.
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#8, #9 — Touch of the Blues, Intermediate eventing and foxhunting Irish Draught stallion. Producer of hundreds of amateur mounts.
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#10, #11 — Gallo’s Coriandrum is my 5yo purebred Connemara mare, who at less than 35-40 rides altogether in her life, foxhunted 20 times this past season.
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#12, #13 — WH Topgun (Connemara) has competed successfully through Preliminary and is a Breyer model!!
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