No, we don't grow any form of funghi, unless you count the occcasional bout with Greasy Heel we get from having so many horses with such thick feathers. Toadstool Farm is, in reality, the name of the owner's home, a cottage in truth in the city of Los Angeles, California. Toadstool Farm began, literally, as a dream owner Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly, who had grown up riding quarter horses and appaloosas, had one night of riding a glorious black horse! She vowed that if she still felt the rush she had felt in the dream when the new year rolled around, her New Year's resolution would be to find that horse. She did feel it, and she did find him! That was Pagan, Toadstool Farm's premiere exhibition horse.

Now our herd grows by leaps and bounds, consisting of horses from several of the rarest breeds around. Breeds known for their beauty, brains and personalities. Friesians, Gypsy Cobs, Fell Ponies, and Arabians all call Toadstool Farm home. And we continue to search out, educate ourselves about, and find ways to import and develop other exquisite rare breeds from around the world.

Located in Burbank, Toadstool Farm's horses have the best in training from day one with us. While the most important and vital thing our horses learn is love, they are also all taught dressage , high school movements, and many other exhibition or movie type "tricks". Foals are imprinted and handled from birth, young horses are broke using the gentlest, most loving methods, by Toadstool Farm owner, Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly. Once the horse is ready to graduate to more than the basics, Jacqueline chooses which of her trainer friends is best suited for that horse and their further education begins. Working with Jacqueline directly, they turn them into showhorses that make people literally stop and stare as they ride past. Jacqueline handles and oversees their daily care through their life with us.

Toadstool Farm is primarily a stallion station, with a few, carefully chosen mares we breed to to satisy our own urge for "baby love"! Our stallions have been chosen with a loving eye by Jacqueline from hundreds of horses around the world, and brought to Toadstool Farm to create the true fairytale horses Jacqueline dreams of! The stallions maintain only a limited amount of breeding contracts each year in order to maintain optimum health and condition throughout the year. Mares are kept at pasture throughout the start of their pregnancies, owing to Jacqueline's belief that natural conditions, open pasture and fresh air do more to create a healthy happy foal than just about anything else. The mares only come in to the barn towards the end so that Jacqueline can midwife them herself

With a list of exhibitions, film and photo credits grows longer every time we turn around, and a herd of happy, and healthy, much-loved and adored horses ( which in the long run is way more important--to us anyway.) that keep us on our toes every day, Toadstool Farm is bringing the true Fairytale Horses back from myth and legend and making them a reality.