Merle-Smith Sporthorses

Merle-Smith Sporthorses Head trainer and coach - Nicolette Merle-Smith. We breed, raise, buy, train, and sell horses for pri

Today’s scans with the vets were great!•☘️ RMF Miss Aoife is checked 💓 55 days in foal to ☘️ BSF Golden Snitch with (🤞) ...
06/19/2026

Today’s scans with the vets were great!
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☘️ RMF Miss Aoife is checked 💓 55 days in foal to ☘️ BSF Golden Snitch with (🤞) a filly!
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🇬🇧 SRF Chilli Sunrise is checked 💓 39 days in foal to 🇲🇳 Chinggis Khan! (A repeat of Khojin)
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☘️ Gallo’s Coriandrum is checked 💓 34 days in foal to ☘️ WH Topgun! (A repeat of Ghostrider)
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☘️ Cabin Society is checked 💓 26 days in foal to 🇲🇳 Chinggis Khan!
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All of these foals will be available in utero, with only a deposit required until 24 hours after birth. 🥰
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I will be making individual posts for each of these with dam, sire, and their various accomplishments, and the pride of their pedigrees!
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06/15/2026

Daycare hack— hide the scissors!

Breeding friends— I know of a mare who lost her foal during birth this morning, in Northern Virginia.•Does anyone know o...
06/13/2026

Breeding friends— I know of a mare who lost her foal during birth this morning, in Northern Virginia.
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Does anyone know of a foal without a mom? Can be roughly up to THREE WEEKS old.
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This momma wants a baby! Please contact Amy McNeely at (703) 470-3447
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We have another ⚫️ pregnancy! Cabin Society “Jumbie” (Jumbo x Bluejean Society xx) has been checked in foal to Chinggis ...
06/12/2026

We have another ⚫️ pregnancy! Cabin Society “Jumbie” (Jumbo x Bluejean Society xx) has been checked in foal to Chinggis Khan - Oldenburg Stallion!
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My mother, Rosie, originally bought Jumbie from Denny Emerson to breed to our late stallion, Concerto Grosso, so we are very excited at the prospect of a foal from his wonderful son, Chinggis!
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👉https://www.virginiafieldhunters.com/cabin-society
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We are 🤞 our fingers this sticks!
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Tamarack Hill Farm

✨THE SUPER PONY✨ would like everyone to know her current momma completely forgot her 23rd birthday two days ago!!!!! 🤣 I...
06/10/2026

✨THE SUPER PONY✨ would like everyone to know her current momma completely forgot her 23rd birthday two days ago!!!!! 🤣 I kept telling myself it was the 10th but that was a different horse from the same era. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Time flies when you’re having fun, and this pony doesn’t look (or act) a day over 9… which is how old she is in all of these photos!
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👉 https://www.virginiafieldhunters.com/ganymede
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I can’t believe I made this. 💕 Elliott Timmons said it— “Holy Smokes! He’s literally perfect!” 🤩 •These are the professi...
06/10/2026

I can’t believe I made this. 💕 Elliott Timmons said it— “Holy Smokes! He’s literally perfect!” 🤩
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These are the professional photos of MS GHOSTRIDER, taken at Upperville C**t & Horse Show by Zenya Lepper Photography for Erin Gilmore Photography.
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While he may have been the only entry in the foal in the Pony Hunter Breeding Foal class; therefore, placing 🥇 first, it wouldn’t have mattered. This little guy was an absolute gentleman, and had all the welsh pony breeders simply swooning 🪭 over him. He is 100% a STUNNING stallion prospect. He is so well-built with a temperament to match.
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Ghostrider 👻 comes from an extended pedigree of mid/upper level eventing Connemara ponies and foxhunters— some of whom I have loved for many, many years! 💁🏻‍♀️ Again, just repping my little breeding program in the hunter breeding ring! 😉
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👉 https://beta.allbreedpedigree.com/ms-ghostrider-ZuGX8FYo/pedigree
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Thank you to Elliott for being the easiest stallion owner with whom to work. And thank you Katie Pinner for breeding and entrusting Cora with me. I am so very lucky.
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🌟 ATTENTION BREEDERS 🌟~Listen up!! I am offering a deal for JUNE 2026, appealing to those of you who tend to get "wild ...
06/09/2026

🌟 ATTENTION BREEDERS 🌟
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Listen up!! I am offering a deal for JUNE 2026, appealing to those of you who tend to get "wild hairs." 😘
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If you'd like to try breeding your mare to one of my FOUR stallions THIS YEAR, check it out. --Pay me a booking fee (what it would cost me in time and fuel to get him to collections). If your mare takes, pay the remainder of the agreed-upon stud fee. If she doesn't, then we're even. There is no contract - This is a per-collection deal.
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If you decide to extend this partnership into next year, we would then sign a standard two-year contract for 2027-2028.
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Please use our new and improved request form on the website, and please be sure to mention JUNE 2026 DEAL in the "Do you have anything else you'd like to add?" section!
👉https://www.virginiafieldhunters.com/stallion-contract-request-form
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BSF Golden Snitch - Connemara Stallion
Chinggis Khan - Oldenburg Stallion
Raven Sky - Thoroughbred Stallion
Manu Forti's Blue Clover - C1 Irish Draught Stallion

I don't think you guys are ready for these professional photos from Upperville C**t & Horse Show by Zenya Lepper Photogr...
06/08/2026

I don't think you guys are ready for these professional photos from Upperville C**t & Horse Show by Zenya Lepper Photography for Erin Gilmore Photography.
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First, please enjoy these lovely photos of my precious MS KHOJIN (by Chinggis Khan - Oldenburg Stallion) with her wonderful mommy, SRF CHILLI SUNRISE (Chilli Morning x Jetting West xx bred by Setters Run Farm). The halter was wayyy too big, but it was too late to find something to fit when we got there. 😅 So, we just ran with it, and it just didn't matter!
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Second place🥈 in the Non-Thoroughbred Foal Hunter Breeding class on Saturday. I am just so proud of my mares, foals, and little breeding program! And while she is not truly hunter-bred, she IS royally 👑 sport-horse-bred, and I'm just happy to be out there! Khojin is being retained by us for future riding adventures and eventual breeding.
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She is a granddaughter of our own late Concerto Grosso Holsteiner Stallion, Angel the Hunt Horse (JC Empress Lisa), the late 5-star champion Chilli Morning, and the late Jetting West xx (Denny Emerson's competition mare from the early 2000s). There is a lot of thoughtfulness and love in all this breeding. 💞
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Tamarack Hill Farm

WOW… What a day at Upperville C**t & Horse Show in the Polo ring with the ponies.•MS GHOSTRIDER (by WH Topgun) earned 🥇 ...
06/08/2026

WOW… What a day at Upperville C**t & Horse Show in the Polo ring with the ponies.
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MS GHOSTRIDER (by WH Topgun) earned 🥇 first in the Pony Hunter Breeding Foal class this morning and was an absolute champ to show. And his momma Gallo’s Coriandrum (bred by Katie Pinner) was all class. Both stole the show with their presence, sweetness, and wonderful temperaments. 😉
👉 https://beta.allbreedpedigree.com/ms-ghostrider-ZuGX8FYo/pedigree
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And RMF MISS AOIFE (bred by Susan Goodhouse) slayed 🥇 her Purebred Connemara Mare class, and SWEPT the Purebred Connemara Championship 🏆 as well. Of course, all the ponies were complemented on their excellent hair genes! 🙃
👉 https://beta.allbreedpedigree.com/rmf-miss-aoife-rDkSQeZ8/pedigree
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Swag included ribbons, plaques, chocolates, Buckeye supplements, and a big ole Upperville wool cooler for those cold pre-foxhunt mornings!! 😉
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I am so proud and honored to own these mares and to have bred this c**t. Just WOW. Thank you Upperville, the judge, the announcer (for attempting to pronounce names 😅), the breeders of my ponies, the owner of Topgun (Elliott Timmons), the ACPS, and my husband Joel for getting us to this day!
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Go Connemaras!!
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Thrilled to have my girls in foal for two purebreds next year. 🥰 Cora back to Topgun and Aoife to BSF Golden Snitch!
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**tandhorseshow

My little MS Khojin (and her momma SRF Chilli Sunrise) went and showed in the Hunter Breeding Non-Thoroughbred Foal clas...
06/07/2026

My little MS Khojin (and her momma SRF Chilli Sunrise) went and showed in the Hunter Breeding Non-Thoroughbred Foal class today at Upperville C**t & Horse Show, after getting bathed and body clipped yesterday! 🥹
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Doted on by onlookers, she was SUCH a little sweet professional, and I am just so pumped for our future together!
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MS KHOJIN
Dam: SRF CHILLI SUNRISE
Sire: CHINGGIS KHAN
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A huge thank you to Hayley Elliott for suggesting I go do this AND helping me all day today! And thank you to Sammie Masoudi and her mom Lisa Hamako for extra grooming, moral support, and photographs!!
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**tandhorseshow

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Louisa, VA
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