All In The Family: Grandparents’ Orphan Foal Grows Into Amateur’s First Advanced Partner

All In The Family: Grandparents’ Orphan Foal Grows Into Amateur’s First Advanced Partner

Foal standing on gravel, with woman and horse in back
Baby “Pirate” with breeder Marynell Eyles and the foal’s nurse mare, Ridgetop Harriet. Photo Courtesy Of Margo Goldfarb

The Chronicle of the Horse, September 15, 2025
by Christina Keim

In late May 2016, Margo Goldfarb stopped at Greenwood Farm in Middlebrook, Virginia, for a quick visit. Home to her grandparents Walter and Marynell Eyles and their Ridgetop Connemaras breeding program, the farm has produced generations of successful sport horses. In fact, Goldfarb was competing Twobits, a mare by one of her grandparents’ stallions, in their first CCI2* at the Virginia Horse Center that weekend.

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