Welcome to Shadows Dreaming Stables, a multi-breed horse breeding facility in Illinois. We are affliated with the IPABRA and SHSA. We currently host a monthy show through SHSA; for more information, please see the Shadows Dreaming Showing Arena.
The home office in Illinois features our show horse breeding and showing program. We are pleased to present our Arabians, North American Spotted Draft Horses, Friesians, and Stock horses. We race Stock horses and Arabians through our Nachttraum Racing affliation, and many of our horses that fail to excel at the track find their place here in the show ring. Most of these horses are BSO, though a few have bodies. If you are interested in a breeding, please let me know. Please use the buttons above to view my available horses. My breeding rules are below, and feel free to download a copy of my sire/dam list, available in PDF.
1) Please send the following information on each foal: name, year foaled, breed, color, markings, gender, make, mold (or specify as BSO), your name, and your stable’s name.The same info is needed on any parent not owned by Shadows Dreaming Stables plus its owner’s name, farm name, and a full pedigree so I can fill out your breeding certificate completely. Email breedings are free, and snail mail breedings cost $.25 per breeding and require a SASE to cover costs.
Please follow naming conventions! Any foals with obvious real horse names (Bask, Three Bars, etc) or Breyer names (Karma Gypsy, Mustang Lady, etc) will be refused. Please do some research into the name procedures or email me to ask; I will be happy to help.3) Foals must be at least 4 years younger than their sire. Mares’ open years are listed at the end of their profile; one foal per year except in the rare case where I allow an Embryo Transfer. Please list a few year choices in case your first choice is taken. I prefer if your foals are aging, but will accept non-aging foals (I will assign them a birth year for my records). Details only foals are accepted within reason. Please follow color genetic rules. I can provide the genetic background of any of my horses.
A) Gray foals must have a parent of the same color. Remember that dark horses sometimes fade to gray with age (mainly in Spanish breeds and Arabians- this means that your 12 y/o Arab could be a bay-turned- gray.
B) A black bred to bay or chestnut will usually produce bay or chestnut (unless the black parent is homozygous), and rarely black. Black bred to black will usually produce black.
C) Two bays can produce almost anything but gray; two grays can produce almost anything, but 75% of the time will have gray.
D) Chestnut foals may have parents of almost any solid color, but two chestnuts will only have chestnut foals.
E) A chestnut/bay and a horse carrying the cream gene may have a palomino/buckskin foal. (“Cream” is a dilution gene which can be found in palomino, buckskin [single dilutes], cremello, perlino[double dilutes], and some black horses. The gene lightens brown areas in one dose [the single dilutes], and washes them out completely in a double dose [the double dilutes]. The cream gene does not affect true black horses.)
Tobiano bred to overo will usually produce tobiano or tovero, and an overo to a solid or two overos can only have overo and solid foals. Two frame overos may result in “Lethal White Syndrome,” where the foal is born white and dies soon after birth.
G) For my fantasy horses/equines, please follow these rules: Two Unicorns will always produce a Unicorn. A Unicorn crossed with a regular horse will produce a fantasy colored horse (a.k.a. Carpe Diem). A Unicorn crossed with a fantasy horse will produce a Unicorn 50% of the time, and a fantasy horse the other 50% of the time. A fantasy horse and a regular horse will produce a regular horse 50% of the time, and fantasy horse 50% of the time. Two fantasy horses crossed will produce a fantasy horse 50% of the time, a Unicorn 25% of the time, and a regular horse 25% of the time. The Pegasus breed and the Hippogryph breed follow the same rules as a Unicorn, including the crosses with a regular and fantasy horse. All Unicorns, Pegasi, and Hippogryphs are homozygous for the Fantasy gene.
H) Whenever possible, I will include notes on what kind of foals the horse can produce in their profile. Some of my horses are Homozygous for certain genes. This will be noted in the profile, along with any “hidden” genes they are carrying.
5) Crossbreeding is fine, but I do retain the right to refuse the breeding if I wish. There are enough people doing it in real life that I think that it can be considered realistic.
6) I reserve the right to refuse a breeding you have made if it’s not realistic, you haven’t supplied enough information, or you haven’t followed these guidelines.
7) Most of my horses are registered with the Express (BSO Arabian, Standardbred, and Stock Racing) or Simulated Horse Showing Association (BSO shows), so please ask me for any information on my horses. Even horses that have models assigned to them will be registered in SHSA so that any BSO foals they produce will have scores based off of their own. Before you ask, I am a Cream and Champagnefan, so don’t be surprised at the multiple numbers I have of them!
Last Updated: February 12, 2005