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Home to a lot of Haflinger hitch horses, an occasional draft horse, and one mini donkey.

19/10/2024

Nice aluminum team harness box for sale. Will work for draft or pony size harness. Hardly used, rolls easily. Asking $2,000. Located in Ohio. Call or text Bob at 937-408-3044.

25/09/2024

Good luck, ladies!!

25/09/2024

Congratulations to these finalists! We’re wishing all of them the best of luck as they head to The Big E. Most of all, we’re hoping for safe travels, safe drives, and no cardiac emergencies this year!

27/06/2024

Custom-made, single draft horse harness for sale. Made by Shanahan Harness Shop. High quality leather and has been used very few times. Includes: bridle with separate cavesson, collar, back pad, tugs, martingale, and wheel britchen. Also comes with over-the-back pad cart attachments. Unique opportunity to get such a high-quality harness with such little use. Asking $5,500. Call 937-408-3044 for more information and to purchase. Located in Ohio.

15/10/2023

We’re grateful for the outpouring of thoughts, prayers, and get-well-wishes for Dad (Bob Shanahan). He is home and healing!

We’ve heard from friends near and far asking about what happened and how he’s doing. While showing at the Big E, Dad began displaying symptoms of a heart attack. Thanks to the help of some great people, he was rushed to the Emergency Room. Initial tests indicated it might be a stroke. Further imaging determined it was actually an aortic dissection. The inner most lining of Dad’s aorta had ruptured, in two places. This type of cardiac event is very life threatening and requires emergent surgery. We were told there was a good chance he wouldn’t survive the surgery. It was a long wait overnight while the doctors repaired several things in his heart, including a tissue valve transplant.

(Fun fact: you can book a plane ticket, drive to the airport, fly from Ohio to Connecticut, and take a taxi to the hospital in Massachusetts faster than they can perform that surgery. Just ask Mom (Missy Shanahan) and Dan, they made it to Springfield before Dad was out of surgery.)

After surgery, Dad developed a lung infection that caused some concern and additional discomfort. As he recovered from that, we were able to see more and more of his personality p*ek through. (i.e. he became more and more impatient!)

Dad is home now and we’re expecting a full recovery (with time and as long as he follows the Doctor’s orders!) It will be a slow process to fully regain his strength.

It’s times of tragic emergency that you are reminded how important the people in your life are and how little everything else matters. We’re thankful for all the friends and family who are helping out in every way possible. And we’re beyond grateful Dad is home and healing!

03/10/2023

Not the Big E we had planned… on day 2, while hooked and headed to the ring, we thought Dad (Bob) was having a heart attack. Thanks to the help of some good friends, we got the horses unhooked and some great paramedics rushed him to the nearby trauma center which, thankfully, is also a highly-rated heart hospital. The timing and location of this situation ended up being a blessing! Had the show been further from a huge hospital or had he been alone, this type of cardiac episode would have ended differently. Dad was rushed into a major surgery. (All of the nurses keep telling us how lucky we were to have the on-call surgeon we did… he’s the best!)

He is now recovering and being monitored by a great healthcare team. He has a long road ahead to recover but he’s already made some progress. He’s off the ventilator which means he can talk to us!

We’d like to thank the huge crew of horse show friends who did everything possible to get our horses and equipment packed and headed home. The horses got home last night and that’s one less thing to worry about. We’re thankful to have so many fantastic friends and family who dropped everything to help!

Photo credit to Stacie C. Lynch Photography

20/09/2023

Thank you doesn’t even begin to cover it for the Hefner family and Jake. He had a notorious ladies cart career with Amanda Hefner while playing a key role in many hitch classes then, he had a stint as a breaking horse in Florida. We’ve been blessed to lease him this year! He had a big spot to fill in our right wheel and he’s done it flawlessly. He’s been an anchor in our unicorn, four, and six. He’s been a joy to show. Jake is one of the greats. (Probably one of the most-winning ladies cart Haflingers in recent history?) Thank you, Amanda, Ryan, Augie & Scott for lending us the greatest. It’s been a fun season with him!

04/09/2023

Two heads are better than one. 🐴🐴 Throwback to GLHA. •

22/08/2023

Another great in the books! •

07/08/2023

We’re home & rested up from the Ohio State Fair. It was great to be back in the coliseum during the fair and to show in front of a crowd! Despite the heat and the long schedule, the geldings did great. We appreciate everyone, especially Ron & Chelsea, who make this fantastic show possible!

23/07/2023

Fun weekend at the Derrer Ranch Classic! Thank you Donny & Nicki Crowl for lending us an 8th horse.

14/07/2023

Had a blast at Great Lakes Haflinger Association Show! Thanks for capturing these moments Lauren Flory.

19/06/2023

Fantastic weekend at the NODPA International Hitch Show! We’re very grateful to Levi & his crew for their hard work. It’s always fun to take a few victory laps - but it’s even better to show with our crew of tiny helpers!

Thanks to Jeanne Mathias for capturing so many great pictures!

11/06/2023

We had a great time at the Wilmington Classic "Between the Sun & the Stars"! We appreciate everyone that works so hard to make the show possible. We’re especially grateful for their p*e wee decorating class - it’s great seeing the kids have fun at the shows!

04/06/2023

Getting that Shanahan Harness all fitted for the show season. We’re excited for the Wilmington Classic "Between the Sun & the Stars" this week!

01/06/2023

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A nice drive to kick off the 2023 Indiana State Fair!

Fun weekend at the Derrer Ranch Classic! Thank you Donny & Nicki Crowl for lending us an 8th horse.

Sunny afternoon drive.

The geldings are getting ready for Wilmington Classic "Between the Sun & the Stars".

Fence is going up on the new 20 acre pasture this weekend. We’d (obviously) rather be sweating it out at a show but this is part of it, too. Looking forward to some horses being turned out here soon!

A Proximo of Genesis.

A Proximo of Genesis is out enjoying the sunshine with a few mares. A Proximo of Genesis is an Arno Van Het Nieshof son, out of Raphael Rose TOF (an Aristocrat TOF daughter.)