Shahdeen's Foals
With just a handful of purebred foals, Shahdeen is demonstrating his ability to produce better foals than the previous generation. He stamps his foals with the obvious look of his pedigree, and gives them large expressive eyes, gentle natures and tremendous overall quality.
Each of the mares we have bred him to have been different in both phenotype and genotype, yet he stamps his foals with his looks.
What kind of mares are best for Shahdeen?
We always look for mares that are short in the back and really strong in the hip and we like to see a longer croup. Some of the horses in his sire line can throw a shorter croup length, so we like to avoid that by adding in back in with a mare. The mare should really have a nice body.
We also look for mares with a cleaner neck and throat latch. Both his sire and his damline can produce a shorter, thicker neck, which he does have at rest. Though like the rest of his sire line, once that neck is in use, it is quite impressive. None the less, that is something we like to see in a prospective mare.
For Arabians:
We have had exceptionally good results with Spanish, Bey Shah, Russian and Polish mares that are plainer, but nicely bodied.
Other breeds:
We have bred him to two quarter horse mares. The first mare was very tall and had rougher coupling and a more jagged top line. Her croup was very peak and her tail was extremely low set. This was not his best foal, while he greatly improved the movement and the head, adding a large eye, shortened head, pretty ears and a nicely shaped neck, that rear end proved too severe for him to overcome. We do feel the resulting foal would be fairly nice with a good feed program and conditioning, which it's not getting, however it's not a cross we would care to repeat.
The other QH mare had a nicer, smoother body and smoother topline, the hip and croup on this mare wasn't near as peaked and the tail set was just right for the QH breed standard and this foal was very nice. This colt combined the best of both the dam and the sire.
What are his weaknesses?
Shahdeen himself tends to have a lot of the refinement of his sire. His weakest points, in my opinion is he could use more substance ( this is subjective, as some people have said they prefer him as he is ) and I would like to see him have just a little more croup length. He also could be slightly more compact in the back.
While he isn't small, he isn't super large. He is more of a medium body build.
What does he consistently add?
He always puts a large eye on his foals. All of his foals have a large well placed eye, even if the mare doesn't have a nice large eye. He also adds a nice shape to the head, lots of width between the eyes. He improves the shape of the neck and how it ties into the shoulder. In some mares he has greatly improved the hip. On fine legged mares he adds some balance to their bone to body ratio.
Each of the mares we have bred him to have been different in both phenotype and genotype, yet he stamps his foals with his looks.
What kind of mares are best for Shahdeen?
We always look for mares that are short in the back and really strong in the hip and we like to see a longer croup. Some of the horses in his sire line can throw a shorter croup length, so we like to avoid that by adding in back in with a mare. The mare should really have a nice body.
We also look for mares with a cleaner neck and throat latch. Both his sire and his damline can produce a shorter, thicker neck, which he does have at rest. Though like the rest of his sire line, once that neck is in use, it is quite impressive. None the less, that is something we like to see in a prospective mare.
For Arabians:
We have had exceptionally good results with Spanish, Bey Shah, Russian and Polish mares that are plainer, but nicely bodied.
Other breeds:
We have bred him to two quarter horse mares. The first mare was very tall and had rougher coupling and a more jagged top line. Her croup was very peak and her tail was extremely low set. This was not his best foal, while he greatly improved the movement and the head, adding a large eye, shortened head, pretty ears and a nicely shaped neck, that rear end proved too severe for him to overcome. We do feel the resulting foal would be fairly nice with a good feed program and conditioning, which it's not getting, however it's not a cross we would care to repeat.
The other QH mare had a nicer, smoother body and smoother topline, the hip and croup on this mare wasn't near as peaked and the tail set was just right for the QH breed standard and this foal was very nice. This colt combined the best of both the dam and the sire.
What are his weaknesses?
Shahdeen himself tends to have a lot of the refinement of his sire. His weakest points, in my opinion is he could use more substance ( this is subjective, as some people have said they prefer him as he is ) and I would like to see him have just a little more croup length. He also could be slightly more compact in the back.
While he isn't small, he isn't super large. He is more of a medium body build.
What does he consistently add?
He always puts a large eye on his foals. All of his foals have a large well placed eye, even if the mare doesn't have a nice large eye. He also adds a nice shape to the head, lots of width between the eyes. He improves the shape of the neck and how it ties into the shoulder. In some mares he has greatly improved the hip. On fine legged mares he adds some balance to their bone to body ratio.
Shahdeen x FA Sahara
2012 Chestnut Arabian Filly owned by Eagle Rock Farms
Taballah ERF
Shahdeen x Winds of Sonata
2013 Chestnut Sabino colt. This colt has all the best qualities from his fantastic parents. It was a wonderful cross. SOLD to Rufus Haynes of San Francisco
Shahdeen x Sagarah
2013 Black Bay Arabian Filly owned by the Burkes of Garderville, NV
Shahdeen x WHRS Paradice Bey
Bey Shahdeevah
Memoria Paradiso 2015 filly full sibling to Bey Shahdeevah 2015-2016
This filly was exceptionally special. She was born and just a month later, we lost her dam. Unfortunately we lost this filly due to a tragic accident. She will be forever missed, she was a wonderful, sweet, loving and gentle girl. She was the filly we chose to replace her dam, but it was not to be.
Half Arabian 2014 Colt, "Curious George"
Owned by A. Parker