Glad you liked the pics

Vermontcat, I have yet to see that movie so I didn't know there was such a focus on the horses, but I did search around and came up with this paragraph:

Fellowship Of The Ring featured several horses, from the coal-black breed the Ringwraiths rode to Arwen's white steed. None of those can compare to Shadowfax, Gandalf's trusty snow-white Andalusian (the breed Carousel horses are modeled after) who emerges as a distinct character. A horse from Rohan, Shadowfax is presented to Gandalf by King Theoden and is thought to possess amazing intuition.

So, according to that site Shadowfax is an Andalusian. I also found several more sites about Shadowfax and pretty much all of them stated that he was of that breed. Here is another example:

To create the army of horses used by the Rohan people, horse coordinator Steve Old held "auditions" all across the country of New Zealand. His search yielded breeds of all types, with owners travelling for hours with their horse and trailer to the audition.

The two horses chosen to play Shadowfax, the majestic white horse on whose back Gandalf the White makes his first appearance, were of the Andalusian breed.

A stable was set up outside Wellington with 75 core horses being housed and train. The open-door policy for actors to come and ride any time of day or night paid off. Cast members such as Mortensen, Tyler and Bloom rode for leisure, even on their days off. Mortensen developed such a close bond with his horse that he purchased it from its owner.

In some scenes, the production used as many as 250 horses at once- side by side riding on New Zealand terrain. The resulting image possesses a realism that can't be duplicated digitally.

Horse technical advisors Lyle Edge and John Scott, whose work includes such films as Unforgiven and Legends of the Fall, were on location to help orchestrate and choreograph the complicated riding and battle sequences.

Tim Abbot and his team made 70 saddles by hand especially for the production. Each of these saddles are embossed and carved with Middle-earth history and were also aged and painted for authenticity.

I thought it was very sweet that Viggo Mortensen bought his horse even! He was my favorite actor in the original movie so that's even cooler

Here's some pics I found of him (he IS pretty!):





And you can find a great page with tons of pics of Shadowfax here http://www.theargonath.cc/characters...owfaxpics.html.

Hope that helped