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- Are you frustrated in your of search for a seasoned fox hunting horse on horse-for-sale sites?
- Do you find a horse as a fox hunter as well as many other disciplines, but it hasn't actually been around hounds.
- Do you find when you call an owner and ask about a horse, that the horse has never hunted and the owner who has never hunted thinks the horse would be good at it?
- Do you find that horses are not divided into groups of experience, i.e. 1st flight, 2nd flight, hilltopping?

Hi, I'm Rosemarie Merle-Smith, owner of this website and a life-long fox hunter and ex-MFH of the Tennessee Valley Hunt (2009-2018). I have my colors with Arapahoe, Keswick, Thornton Hill, Golden Vale (Ireland) and Tennessee Valley. I am currently a subscriber to four hunts: Deep Run Hunt, Keswick Hunt Club, Tennessee Valley Hunt Club, Thornton Hill Hounds. I've been a trainer of hunters, jumpers, eventers and fox hunters for 40 years. I operate Merle-Smith Sporthorses with my daughter, Nicolette, in Virginia and Florida. We breed German Sport Horses that are primarily Holsteiner.
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