Shangrila Farm is located on 26 acres near Ocala, Florida, “Horse Capital of the World.”   We have a breeding, training, and sales program of purebred Lusitanos with quality bloodlines from Portugal, Brazil, and Mexico. 

The Lusitano is a breed rich in history.  Early cave drawings of the Iberian Horse (Andalusian - Spain and Lusitano - Portugal) identify this breed as one of the oldest horse breeds in the world.  Geographic factors, economics, and customs of Spain and Portugal influenced different traits and qualities producing the Andalusian horse and the Lusitano horse.

The Lusitano horse typically has a short-coupled body conformation with deep shoulder, powerful chest, high wither, sloping croup, and long slender limbs.  The Lusitanos are known for their kind temperament, keen intelligence, the ability to collect, and a comfortable ride.  They perform successfully in various disciplines from  dressage, hunter/jumper, eventing, reining, and show jumping.

Our training program starts with babies learning to be lead, to be bathed, to have their ears, whiskers and hoofs trimmed, to load in a trailer.  Lusitanos are reasonably slow developers and young horses may gain a couple of inches in height in their fifth or sixth year.  We start the young horses with halter training and around three to four years of age start under saddle.  We select the discipline best suited for the horse.  At the present time, we have horses being trained in hunt seat, hunter/jumper, and dressage. 

We offer in-utero, babies, young stock, and show horses for sale.  We are privileged to have two stallions from renowned bloodlines which we stand at stud to our mares and to outside mares:   Exaustivo, a black-bay, imported from the famous Alter Real Stables in Portugal and Veneno Imperial, an exotic buckskin,  imported from Brazil of the Veiga bloodline.

Please visit our Website for a list of the sale horses and breeding fees for the stallions.