Meersbrooke Farm Horses & Ponies

14/07/2024

Foal handling session today.

12/07/2024

After a long holiday, since being broken in, Sian's 5yo Pablo is back under saddle with Annabel on board. Pablo's by Meersbrooke Iced Ripples out of the TB mare Royal Enchantress aka Poppy (by Sir Percy).
Younger sister Ella & her pony Coco were babysitter's for the farm hack today.

09/07/2024

Our old stallion Meersbrooke Iced Ripples dusted off his moves today to show off. The TB spellers were racing each other...he wasn't going to miss out 😁
Not looking bad for nearly 28yo...he kept it going for quite a while.

09/07/2024

Great new product. Check it out

Introducing WoolGard • Utilising the potential of New Zealand strong wool to create animal health products that are naturally anti microbial, sustainable and 100% NZ grown and made.

We are excited to soon be releasing our first two products, a sheep’s wool alternative to your cotton wool gamgee.
This product is the ideal wrap for under your horses bandages whether it be for medical or everyday use. Wool is the favourable choice due to its inherent antimicrobial and moisture wicking qualities plus it’s also a superior and proven temperature regulator, meaning your horses legs are less likely to sweat.

Available in a 45cm and 30cm roll, simply cut your roll to size and use as you normally would under bandages.

We look forward to sharing more with you soon!

29/06/2024

Broodmare owners...check out this fabulous auction 🥰

This album contains all stallion services we have had donated to Auction for
Native Ride - NZ to Montana - Auction

❤️These Auctions are now finished❤️

16/06/2024

So here's some more information I found this morning. It's separate from the current debate raging around pedigree verification in age group classes with ESNZ.

The info below will be of interest to breeders of stationbred/Coastie type horses in particular.

It's proposing introduction of compulsory microchipping of all foals born in NZ starting from 2025 onwards. The details would be registered on the Companion Register (your vet will have added your cat or dog etc to this if they've been chipped)...unless you were registering with one of the various breed organisations.

16/06/2024

09/06/2024

3yo homebred pony Meersbrooke Bright Spark (aka Donkey) enjoying life. Plan to start her ridden education soon. She's by Whakapirau Sand n Surf who's now in Northland. Out of Meersbrooke Miss Dior. Miss Dior was by Meersbrooke Sparhawk out of Meersbrooke Miss Balmain who was by Meersbrooke Ambassador out of the TB mare Miss
Atlas. The Miss Atlas dam line produced M. Harlequin, M Miss X, M. Nimbus & many more good performers.

01/04/2024

Home after grazing on our former neighbours farm for the past 4yrs. Meersbrooke No Ears ( by Meersbrooke Ambassador out of the TB mare Demelling by Domingly).
No Ears is now 23yo & enjoying her retirement. Quite a few patches of grey hair these days 😁

It's been great to see her son M. Big Ears carrying on her winning ways in the Showhunter ring. And Sacha loves riding her daughter M. Baby Ears...even if they don't get time to compete much.

For those who don't know the story behind No Ears name...she lost most of her ears to frostbite as a weanling, when we lived in the Kawhatau Valley. It was a very heavy snow & it froze on her fluffy ears.

Most of her competive career we heard all sorts of comments & crazy theories about her ears...including how cruel we were & she should have been euthanized 🙄
Lucky we're all thick skinned 😁

08/03/2024

Congratulations to Jasmine Priest & Meersbrooke Big Ears. Awesome results. Taking after his Mummy Meersbrooke No Ears. I'm sure his sire Electronic Al ( Zippy) would have been out there too..but sadly lost far too young.

07/03/2024

Congratulations to Meersbrooke Iced Ripples's younger brother - Meersbrooke Sparkling Ripples. Looking great at 21yo.

Class 137: Amateur Hunter Championship 1m max

1 - Sarah Stone (Te Kowhai) Meersbrooke Sparkling Ripples
2 - Jacqui Symes (Waipukurau) Takapoto Sienna
3 - Meg Ryan (Waimauku) HR Clooney
4 - Michael Morton-Beetham (Cambridge) Blue Bell R C
5 - Abby Fawcett (Ohaupo) Hillman Hunter
6 - Emily Twort (Kumeu) Camaro KSNZ

29/02/2024

This season's foals. The dark c**t is by Sir Ego out of Fancy (by Meersbrooke Iced Ripples). The bay filly is a TB by Eminent out of Electric (by Shocking)

23/02/2024

Showjumping rider and coach based in Chatto Creek, New Zealand. Co founder of the Global Amateur Tour

06/02/2024

11yo TB mare 16.1hh. By Swiss Ace & goes back to Stark South on the dam line. Good well performed family. Great natured & excellent to handle. Moves really well. Would make super mare for breeding sporthorses, or continuing on as a TB (this seasons stud return has been done & she is still active on the register). Unfortunately we recently lost her this season's foal. The mare was fantastic throughout. Standing to be milked & she's a super Mum. We still have her 3yo filly who's currently spelling.
Only available as we are winding down our broodmare band.

29/01/2024

Vicki's an awesome little horse.

27/01/2024

Sorting out the new office. Here's a blast back to the past!
The catalogue's from our 1st & 2nd sporthorse auctions. The first was in 1999 at Mangaweka sale yards. Quite a logistical thing carting in 15 youngsters for sale & 6 stallions to parade. The old Bedford was busy up & down the Kawhatau Valley Rd! Plus we had the bright idea to free-jump everything prior to the auction! Including the stallions. And run a food stall! Thank goodness for our hardworking kids & friends.

The 2nd auction was in 2001. This time we held it on farm & auctioned the lots in our newly built round pen. The free jumping demo was down the deer fenced lane that led into the pen. We also opened the auction up to outside entries & had a gear section. Plus food & drinks. 45 lots went through this sale, plus 4 stallions paraded.

Looking back they were big undertakings. No social media like today & all the catalogues hand produced & laboriously photocopied!

And how times have changed. We had a stunning grey Kaimanawa c**t from the first muster - full sized pony. We called him Desert Ash & paraded him at the first auction. But there was zero interest in anyone wanting to breed to him, so he was gelded & went to a PC home.

The list of horses & ponies we've bred since 1987 (the founding of the stud) is long & some very well performed amongst them. Glad we did it...but glad we stopped too. Nice we still have a couple of mares here with all our old bloodlines though. Plus old Iced Ripples...he was a 2yo at the first auction & covered his first mares that spring.

15/01/2024

Meersbrooke Southern Man (aka Bubba) RTR at Tutaenui Sports with Josh on board. Bubba's into his 20s now, but still looking good 🥰

01/01/2024

Dust the saddle off & come along to jump club 🐎

28/12/2023

20/12/2023

Ruahine Pony Club Christmas rally. Everyone having a great time. So pleased to be part of getting this branch up & running.

10/12/2023

Proving how she's adapted to her new life...Meersbrooke Stolen Kiss at Inglewood Pony Club Christmas rally with our 12yo granddaughter Annabel. They've lots planned going forward, including trying some eventing in the autumn

05/12/2023

Great initiative. OTTB can make fantastic sport horses across all the disciplines.

All set up to host Jump Starts first “ongoing support” day.

We are very lucky to have Sally Clark joining us coaching and a strong number of riders today.

All of the horses attending today are NZTBs rehomed through us and our current resident TBs, which also gives us the opportunity to continuously upskill Alex, Holly and myself (Dana).

We hope we can gain more support and look at other disciplines to include in this initiative.

I wish to have this support available on a regular basis to all horses rehomed by Jump Start and their new owners.

Along with ongoing coaching we want to be able to offer “weigh ins” and nutritional support, professional care and advice for you in your TBs new career. And be part of a super supportive TB community!

LOVERACING.NZ
NZTR

08/11/2023

Ruahine is proud to present Jump club open to all and will be hosted at Flockhart with amazing Sport Horse jumps and fill to play with!
Ruahine financial members can ride for free just need to volunteer some time to help 🦾 
Will be cash on the day, running a ticket system so if you purchase 3 rounds and only jump 2 can save your ticket for next Jump Club

04/11/2023

Squiggle's looking pretty flash...and he knows it 😁🤩

30/10/2023

If anyone needs any fencing done, check out if we're going to be in your area. This is what really pays for the Meersbrooke Farm Horses & Ponies 😁
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=812001364264597&id=100063642219804&mibextid=ZbWKwL

18/10/2023

New arrival this morning. Lovely c**t by our TB stallion Sir Ego out of Fancy. Fancy's by Meersbrooke Iced Ripples out of BMW Liberty. The dam line goes back to some good old NZ sporthorse bloodlines...Super Stud, Pintado Desperado & Nitro.