Welcome to Maroon Fire Arabians & Shea Stables

Home of the finest Arabian English Pleasure Horses in the WORLD!

Maroon Fire Arabians and Shea Stables breed, train and market the finest, most successful English-type Arabian horses in the world. Built solidly upon the most successful American Arabian breeding programs of the mid-1900s, Dave and Gail Liniger carefully gathered many of this country’s finest Arabian broodmares, featuring the bloodlines of Barbary+++, the imports *Eter and *Bask++ and Huckleberry Bey++.

At Shea Stables in Michigan, the Linigers found both a lifelong partnership with outstanding trainers and managers, Tim and Marty Shea, and the magnificent Varian-bred stallion, Afire Bey V.  Afire Bey V not only became Liniger’s leading stallion and breeding sire for Maroon Fire Arabians, but the “Horse of a Lifetime” for the entire American Arabian horse breeding community.

Over the years of their incredibly fruitful partnership, the combined Liniger/Shea breeding programs have garnered many awards. Nominated multiple times for the APAHA Horsemen’s Awards Linigers won the title of Breeder of the Year in 1999 and 2002, and in 2013 together with Tim and Marty Shea. The Sheas won this award individually in 2005 and 2017. In 2011 Linigers and Sheas won the USEF Pegasus Ellen Scripps Davis Memorial Breeders Award in conjunction with the USEF Pegasus Awards, one of only five Arabian breeders ever to win this award.

There is always an outstanding group of Arabian horses for sale at Maroon Fire Arabians and Shea Stables, from weanlings and bloodstock to performance prospects in training.

4x Unanimous National Champion

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