Anyone seen the newest sneak peek on the Breyerfest blog? Surely looks like the deco this time, in a possibly Wedgewood blue filigree color. I'm not even going to try to guess the mold on this one so I'll just add whoever it is on Monday to my special runs post when the full reveal comes out. In the meantime, Breyer gave us some food for thought to keep us preoccupied until Monday with the name of the surprise horse. It is officially *dun dun dun dun* *round of applause* the... The most popular vote as to who it might be across the model horse hobby is Hamilton, and he was also originally my top three on my guess post from a few days ago. If you read that, I decided to take it down for now, as shortly after I posted it, Breyer showed the limited edition HD Harkness on the Morgan Stallion mold, a mold I toyed with on the post. I'll put it back up later with a more accurate speculation once all the molds for the special runs and limited editions have been shown.
Anyways, a little stagecoach history. Being more of a rider than a driver of horses myself, I'm learning a lot from this theme because I've never really known the types of vehicles that horses pulled. The stagecoach apparently, to put it in modern terms, was a bit like the Greyhound bus of today. Fancy, pricey, often hauling elite customers from place to place, sometimes really long distances. It was pulled by more than a team of horses, usually four or six horses at a time. They were also used to carry mail so you can even compare them to the UPS of today. Those of you who play Red Dead Redemption 2 have seen them being pulled by draft horses, and a quick Google search says the same... they were pulled by either Percherons or Shires. However, hobbyists and real horse people that are into driving disciplines disagree. They claim that stagecoaches needed fast, lighter framed horses that could cover distances in a shorter amount of time. Stock horses were the most popular, but apparently mustangs and racehorses could also fit the bill. I'll go more into this when I repost my surprise speculation, but guesses range from Wyatt to Ruffian to as far fetched as Old Timer (even though a vintage mold has never been used before... will we see that tradition broken this year as they did with back-to-back mare and foal releases?) but I have a pretty good idea of who we may see. Again, that'll be posted as soon as we see all of the Breyerfest releases before I spill the beans. Comments are closed.
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