Birth Year: 1996	Gender: Mare
Color: Bay	Height:  17.2 h.
Breed: Oldenburg x Thoroughbred
Breeding: Robber Baron x Key Romance > Keelo

NEWS FLASH!  Trophy's first foals of 2009, CASTOR and POLLUX arrived May 10 and May 13.  They are by the Westphalian stallion, Disconto, out of Trophy, carried by surrogate mothers. G Force arrived in June and is by the Hannovarian stallion, Graf Top II

CASTOR and POLLUX

 

2009 Competitions ridden by Nicolette Merle-Smith

(Feb. - Mar., 2009)

Thomson, GA - Pine Top Horse Trials - Open Novice -

Aiken, SC - Sporting Days Farm Horse Trials - Open Training - 33.0 - Second

Thomson, GA - Pine Top Farm HT - Open Prelim - 44.0 - Eighth

    Double clears and no time for Trophy in her first Preliminary since the 2007 Morven CCI*

Glyndon, MD - MCTA Horse Trials - Preliminary - Fourth

     lean show jumping and cross country rounds!

 

 

She has hunted seven seasons all over the East coast. She qualified for the finals of the North American Field Hunter Championships every year she has competed.

She was the 2002 Reserve Champion of the Junior Field Hunter Championships.

Trophy had a successful season at Preliminary with Nicolette, qualifying and then competing in the 2007 American Eventing Championships. She went on to an eighth place at the Morven Park CCI* in 2008, their first time running in an FEI event.

Trophy and Rosemarie Merle-Smith were the Novice Champions in the 2007 Aiken Eventing Series.

Trophy has a 2004 son, L'amoureux, by the Holsteiner, Love Affair, who is hunting 1st flight in Virginia and Tennessee with Grosvenor Merle- Smith.

She also has three foals through Embryo Transfer that were born in 2009.

Castor and Pollux by Disconto (Westphalian)

G-Force by Graf Top II (Hannovarian)

Trophy and Rosemarie at the 2007 Pine Top Farm Winter Horse Trials where they were second.