Pipe Dream Percherons

04/30/2025

Luce remains my most "old style" Percheron stallion in my ownership. He has an 89" Heartgirth in his thin phase and he has 11" of bone. He's massive and broad both front and back.

This piece from the 1930s is quite accurate and fits this modern 2019' Stallion almost 90 years later.

03/29/2025

Digging through my photographs and I'm going to share my pride and joy, Lorelei PDP.

At 16'2, she is far from the biggest horse we have here on the farm. Her sire, Windermere's In Command stood 17.3hh. While her dam, Pinecrest Wixom, only stands 16hh. Commander was a son of Windermere's Just Incredible and out of Wapsi View Fantasy. Wixom was similarly bred top and bottom giving her double infusions of South Valley Did-It, La Rex, and 3 lines to Easter Fury. She was like a gem of Percheron's who's who breeding.
While Lorelei's neck and shoulder are very much influenced by her sire, Commander. There is much of Lorelei that is also her dam. Her type hearkens back to the days of the 1930's when Percheron mares were all around a different type than what is most commonly seen today.

Lorelei while sweet enough, is a firecracker of a mare with an interesting personality. She can occasionally be hot and sensitive, yet also at times be the coolest cucumber of the bunch. In the harness there isn't a lick of lazy in her blood. In her foals, she outproduces herself every single time. Every single one throwing back to the height of her sire and outgrowing their dam. She particularly pairs well on slightly more modern type stallions. She stamps them with her signature neck and shoulder.

Every breeder has favorites. I haven't met one that doesn't yet. Lorelei is undisputedly mine. Named as a tribute to my grandfather. Lorelei is named for the poem, Die Lorelei by Heinrich Heine. Her name is different than most in that Pipe Dream Percherons was turned into a suffix. All of Lorelei's foals are also given 'L' names and carry the PDP farm abbreviation at the end of their names in honor of their dam. It distinguishes them from all the rest of my Registered names.

03/21/2025

Maple Grove's Gamblers Ace
Blue Roan Percheron Stallion.
Sire: Windsong's Gambler
Dam: WV Mariah

03/21/2025

Lazarus PDP. Registered Percheron Gelding.

Laz is both Blue Roan & Grey. Tested by UC Davis. His sire Maple Grove's Gamblers Ace is a blue roan stallion, and his dam Lorelei PDP is a Grey mare..

He is currently 17.3hh

02/14/2025

3 stallions.
Lucifer PDP "Luce"
Pipe Dream's Double Suited "Hunter"
Pipe Dream's Justabay Hector

All registered Percherons stallions.

I went from thinking I'd never own a bay or get an opportunity to own one, to owning a number of them. Yes, they're still extremely rare. There are only 29, which includes geldings, so the breeding population is even smaller. Bay Roans are the rarest at only 3. In part that is maybe why I have 3 stallions, when I'd be happy with just one or two at most.

02/12/2025

02/08/2025

This was Wixom the first day she came home in April of 2005'. Pinecrest Wixom has lived with me for 20 of her 26 years. A daughter of Bar-Land's Tyson and out of Eagle Creek Warmaid. She would be Warmaid's only daughter as she would become an orphan. Wixom would be the reason I bought Bar-Land's Sheri Lyn from Jerry Bartholomew. Wixom would go on to produce 3 daughters. Indigo (WV White Lightening), Lorelei PDP (Windermere's In Command), and Pipe Dream's Linde Sapphire (Maple Grove's Gamblers Ace). Wixom is still completely sound and run's her current 3 horse herd as lead mare. Most older horses lose status as younger horses come up in the herd to take over. Her personality, though sweet and friendly also showed a side of her that could be very bullheaded and pushy. She'd give everything when in the collar, and a motor on her from her rear end to her mouth. She had a hate for sorrels, worked and lived as a 5yr old mare with Belgians before I bought her. Something that changed with time. Even though she's old and quite grey, she's still this same 6yr old mare she was then.

Without Wixom, there would be no Pipe Dream Percherons.

01/12/2025

"Hunter" - Bay Roan Percheron stallion. Yes, he's the real thing. There are only 3 in the United States. All bred and raised here. None left anywhere else.

08/28/2024

Available - Registered Percherons

PDP Veyguely Interesting - Bay c**t. Both parents 17-17.1hh. If you want to raise true old style Percherons, this c**t will be exactly that. A lot of bone and foot underneath him without being coarse. Very sweet laid back disposition. Never has had that "c**t" attitude. Bays are still extremely rare. We really could use more long term breeders, is that you?

Hacienda Bottoms Up - Black c**t. Canadian outcross sire. Should mature in the upper 17 range. Might make 18hh. A lot of pizazz with a very 'look at me' personality. Very square with plenty of substance and foot beneath him. Modern enough he can benefit any program out there and be an outcross for the majority of them. He's only 1 of 2 c**ts from his sire. Sire is deceased. The other c**t is listed below. A very limited opportunity.

Lazarus PDP - Blue Roan + Grey gelding. 2yrs old. 17.2hh. Has not been pushed. Clean slate. Very kind old soul type of temperament. Takes just about everything in as if he's done it 50 times before. Leads, ties, bathes, loads and trailers. Meets you to be caught. No kick or bite. Slow to mature. Give him another 2 years to fill out and he'll be the one to watch. Pleasure horse prospect deluxe. He's going to look a lot like his sire. Looking for his long term new partner in life.

Limitada PDP, can you tell their sire is a beverage name? Black c**t. He's the 2 of 2. Out of my most favored mare. Canadian outcross sire over good old American breeding. An oldie but a goodie. Presence and neck to match. He's got it all. Square from front to back and side to side. No one will ever think he's anything but a draft horse. Very friendly.

All 4 are located in Remus, Michigan.

Please be an adult and don't be afraid to contact me privately. Phone numbers can be exchanged from there if you're seriously interested. Coggins, Health papers and Registration will all be square before leaving.

03/05/2023

Pipe Dream's Linde Sapphire

03/01/2023

Silk Stockings "Sylvi" is one of my younger mares.

03/01/2023

Pipe Dream's Vermillion To One
Bay Percheron mare. There are very very few of them left in the breed, and no, I don't count the questionable number of grade horses being labeled at Bay Percherons.