HA DAR SHADO

HIS SIRE -

HA DAR SHADO DIED QUIETLY IN HIS SLEEP ON NOVEMBER 9, 2000, AT 28 YEARS OLD.   TO US THIS IS LIKE LOOSING A GOOD FRIEND!  HE WAS QUITE A HORSE AND QUITE A LEGEND.   HE MADE A LIVING FOR A FAMILY OF SEVEN!   NEEDLESS TO SAY WE WERE VERY PROUD TO HAVE OWNED HIM.   IT WAS ALSO A PLEASURE TO KNOW HIM.  HE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY US! WE DID GET A NICE COLORED BAY FILLY IN 2000 BY HIM AND OUT OF BILLIEJEAN'S GOOD SHOW MARE, MIGHTY TUFF ENUFF.  SHE IS ALSO BRED AGAIN TO SHADO FOR A 2001 FOAL.    WE OWN SEVERAL WONDERFUL HORSES BY HA-DAR SHADO SO HE WILL BE REMEMBERED THROUGH THE GOOD SONS AND DAUGHTERS THAT HE PRODUCED!   THANKS HA-DAR SHADO!  HA DAR SHADO, A BLACK WITH WHITE OVER HIS LOINS AND HIPS, WAS FOALED ON MAY 12, 1972.  HE WAS ORIGINALLY REGISTERED AS HA DAR'S IMAGE BY HIS BREEDERS, HADLEY CAMPBELL AND AL LEVIN, GURNEE, IL.  HE WAS THE SECOND FOAL BY TWO TIME NATIONAL HALTER CHAMPION, HA-DAR HONEY.  HIS DAM, JINNY CHIC, WHO WAS PROUDLY OWNED BY THE CLARKS UNTIL HER DEATH AT AGE 32, WAS MANY TIMES RESERVE HIGH POINT HALTER MARE AND PERFORMANCE CHAMPION  OF THE BLACKHAWK APPALOOSA ASSOCIATION. AS A WEANLING, HE WAS PURCHASED BY BILL AND DARLENE SCHAFER WHO CHANGED HIS NAME TO HA DAR SHADO.   SHADO WON BOTH THE OPEN AND NOMINATED BLACKHAWK APPALOOSA ASSOCIATION FUTURITIES, BUT DUE TO AN INJURY TO HIS HOCK, SURGERY AND EXTENSIVE CARES, SHADO WAS NOT SHOWN AGAIN UNTIL HE WAS TWO.  IN 1974, HE BECAME HI POINT 2 YEAR OLD STALLION IN THE OZAC REGIONAL.  THE FOLLOWING YEAR HE WAS UNDEFEATED AS A THREE YEAR OLD.   SHADO WAS NEVER TRAINED OR SHOWN BY A PROFESSIONAL AND HE WAS A NATURAL!  DARLENE SCHAFER  BEGAN RIDING HIM IN THE SPRING OF 1975.  THAT SAME YEAR SHADO BECAME RESERVE HIGH POINT JR. WESTERN PLEASURE HORSE AND 3RD AS JR TRAIL HORSE IN THE OZAC REGIONAL.  SHADO'S SHOW CAREER WAS SHORT BUT SWEET AS HE RETIRED FROM THE ARENA  WITH EMPHASIS BEING PLACED ON HIS FOALS.  SHADO BECAME HIGH POINT GET OF SIRE IN THE OZAC REGIONAL FOR 1976 THRU 1979.  HE PLACED 9TH IN THE GET OF SIRE AT THE 1979 WORLD AND IN 1980 PLACED 7TH IN THE GET OF SIRE AT THE NATIONAL AND 8TH AT THE WORLD.  SHADO WAS MANY TIMES A MID CON CHAMPION SIRE, A MULTIPLE STAKES WINNER SIRE AND A SUPERIOR HALTER HORSE SIRE.  SHADO WAS AND IS A SIRE OF WORLD AND NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CHAMPIONS IN RACE, HALTER AND PERFORMANCE.    IN 1984 WE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO PURCHASE SHADO FROM THE SCHAFERS WHO WERE CUTTING BACK.  AFTER 30 DAYS OF TRAINING DONNIE RODE SHADO TO A FIRST PLACE  WIN IN A 25 MILE ENDURANCE RIDE!    AS SHADO CONTINUED THROUGH HIS FOALS FOALS TO ACHIEVE MORE HONORS INCLUDING BECOMING A MULTIPLE MEDALLION SIRE, A THREE TIME SOLID GOLD CHAMPION SIRE AND WAS RESERVE CHAMPION GET OF SIRE AT THE 1989 NATIONALS.   IN 1992 HE WS INCLUDED IN THE ILLUSTRIOUS LEADING SIRES LISTING OF BOTH HALTER AND PERFORMANCE HORSES.  QUITE A HORSE!!!     THE LIST OF HA DAR SHADO'S FOALS WHO HAVE ACHIEVED REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND WORLD HONORS IS ENDLESS FOR SHADO HAS THE UNCANNY ABILITY TO OUT PRODUCE HIMSELF OVER AND OVER.  IN TURN SHADO'S GET HAVE PROVEN TO CARRY THE TRADITION INTO THE 3RD GENERATION PRODUCING TOP HORSES!    SHADO FOALS ALL SEEM TO CARRY HIS CONFORMATION, DISPOSITION AND EAGERNESS TO PLEASE.   WE WILL ALWAYS BE PROUD TO SAY WE HAVE BEEN A PART OF THIS GREAT STALLIONS LEGEND AND HOPE THAT YOU TOO HAVE A SHADO BRED HORSE!   YOU WON'T BE SORRY!

HA - DAR HONEY

HIS DAM  - JINNY CHIC

HA DAR SHADO - 3 months old

SHADO AS WE ALL KNOW HIM!

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