The multi-talented grey stallion Shaded Silver was a pure Crabbet athlete who died in early 2012, aged 24.

He was bred by Maureen de Popp at her Milla Lauquen Stud in 1988. Shaded Silver was by Golden Silver out of Magics Moonshadow (twin of Magics Moonlight, bred by the Countess of Pembroke in 1977), by Sunlight's Allegro, himself out of one of Crabbet Park's "Heavenly Twins", Dancing Sunlight.

The full obituary of Shaded Silver is on the Obituaries page