Hi my name is Maxine Young and welcome to Shimmeron Miniature Horses, a small miniature horse stud based in Tauranga, New Zealand. Here at Shimmeron, my goal is to breed and show the refined, American-style miniature horse. I have many colours and patterns in my breeding herd including appaloosas, pintos, silver dapples, buckskins, chestnuts, bay and black.
I have admired the USA Miniature Horses for years but have never seen anything other than stocky, shaggy ponies in NZ. Then some friends of mine became involved in breeding miniatures and I discovered that NZ had come a long way with improving the quality of theses delightful equine creatures. I have been involved with horses most of my life and spent my teenage years competing in games, show jumping, eventing and dressage in Southland. We moved North in 1983 and 15 years ago I started breeding Quarter Horses. We spent a number of years competing in Western Shows and the andrenelin rushing sport of cutting. Late in 2007 I decided to purchase a mini as a pet but as we all know, it never stops there. It didn't take me long to realise that I would love to have more of these adorable horses as I was so taken with their friendliness and biddable natures. With a huge amount of help from Brigid Banas and more recently Chanel Bradley, I have set myself up as a breeder of quality minis. I have purchased some lovely stock (AMHA and NZMHA) that have some of the world famous horses in their pedigrees.
Pedigrees are something I am very interested in, probably coming from my many years of breeding pedigree dogs. We breed Border Collies and Pomeranians and you might like to vist our website at Heidesa Kennels. See the links page. Both hubby John and myself travel all over the country side competing in dog obedience competition and have trained and bred many Obedience Champions. Both of us are senior obedience judges and have been for over 25 years. I served for many years on the administration side of Dog Training, including two years on the NZ Kennel Club Executive Council.
With the top quality imported lines coming into NZ from the United States, I can see exciting times ahead for the NZ miniature breeding industry and I hope to be able to play a small part in contributing to the improvement of these wonderful little horses. I would like to thank Alexis Banas for creating my wonderful website. Each horse has it's own page (view by clicking on their thumbprint photo). Scroll down to view their pedigrees on their own page. Any horse whose name is underlined also has it own page for reference. Just click on the name. Please check back for updates and for miniature horses for sale.