These horses were offered the day after Christmas to Collector Club members only. The 3rd release in the exclusive 2016 Stablemates Collectors Club: Shiloh! This athletic sport horse packs a lot in a small package: a dynamic extended trot featuring a beautifully shaded and very subtly dappled chestnut and white pinto coat topped off with a high lacquer gloss finish. He shines in every way possible! He comes with his Club satin drawstring bag. Price: $29.99 Last summer we asked you to choose from three beautiful - yet very different - models who were all sporting the same deco: Strapless, the Connemara Mare, and the Fighting Stallion. We've tallied the votes and the people have spoken - the Connemara Mare Starlet is the winner! This Collector Club Special Run has a beautifully-shaded bay dun blanket appaloosa coat and striped hooves, and certainly "wore it best." A starlet through-and-through, this feisty Connemara mare can't help but be the center of attention! Price: $75 A beautifully shaded pinto half-Arabian mare originally designed by Tom Bainbridge. The Arabian, with its delicate dished face and high tail carriage, is considered one of the world's most beautiful breeds, and Cosette is no exception! Her splash of pinto color makes her even more exotic. This was the glossy colored model of Cosette that was originally available as the free gift for the Collector Club appreciation offer. Price: $45 Julien and Sophia are the perfect compliments to Cosette. Their rich bay coloring and pinto patterning were designed by Tom Bainbridge. These horses show their Arabian descent by their high head carriage and flowing manes and tails. Their glossy finish gives them another reason to shine! 1/12 scale and comes in a mail order box. This was the glossy colored model of Cosette that was originally available as the free gift for the Collector Club appreciation offer. Price: Unknown (this pair was already sold out when I went to the sale) Fletcher is a stunning wild bay Appaloosa gelding with three white socks and a blaze. He is available in a matte finish; perfect to display or to bring to your next performance set up. Price: $85 A warehouse find! We have just a small quantity of the 2009 Special Run Grazing Mare and Foal, Cream and Cocoa! This lovely gift set includes Cream, a glossy smoke Grazing Mare, and Cocoa the foal in glossy charcoal. There were only 1,200 sets made! Comes in a mail order box. Price: $65
Merry Christmas to all my readers! So lots of people were waiting for the second of the year's gambler's choice to be released. After Scotty and then Calvin were released last year, both Classics sized gambler's choices, followed up by Calahan this year, we all waited for another gambler's choice to be offered. Well on December 1st Breyer released the new Fruitcake Fillies! Surprised? I sure am. Not only are they stablemates rather than Classics, they are all holiday related decorators rather than just two regular horse colors and one decorator, like in the past. A new tradition maybe? I'd sure like to see more in the future for those who can't afford the traditional sized holiday horse released to Collector Club members on Christmas day. They were limited to 2000 total pieces, with only 500 of each color. Santa Surprise was the Christmas day special for 2018. It included a gambler's choice between one of three different colors of unicorns, with the possibility of being 1 in 12 people to receive a glossy coal black donkey, appropriately named Coal. Unicorn colors included green, blue and gold. They were limited to 350 of each color. Were you naughty or nice this year? The last of the raffle models in the Collector Club for the year, meet Hawthorne the pig. He was released as a raffle model for the Collector Club. He is painted in Breyer's popular vintage woodgrain color. He was $125 postage paid. Considering that Breyer only made a handful of pigs and only two were available as regular runs, this is actually a good price. The 2019 Holiday horse will be Minstrel who looks like he's going to be a silver bay! He is on the Loping Quarter Horse (aka Latigo) mold. This was a sneak peek photo of what he will look like.
It's official! The 2019 regular runs have finally been released. Colors were still mostly bay (I mean they are portrayed after real horses and the most common color is bay) but there were a few other colors thrown in as well. Those of you who were waiting for a regular run to be released on this mold... here you are! This is Catch Me a light grey hunter jumper. "Snoopy" was the 2016 and 2017 National Hunter Hall of Fame Horse of the Year. Protocol was a legendary bay Thoroughbred hunter made by Breyer on the Strapless mold. The set comes with a couple dogs, as the owner of Protocol started a dog rescue and helped save over 10,000 dogs during Hurricane Katrina. This set is actually a benefit model, as a portion of the proceeds will go towards Danny and Ron's Rescue. Another bay and newly released mold as a regular run is Dominante XXIX the two time champion PRE stallion. I don't collect too many regular runs but I have to say that this mare caught my eye because of her loud coloring. This is Truly Unsurpassed and she is spectacular with her bald face and blue eyes. She was a western dressage show star, winning many awards in the discipline. Anyone who knows the Denver Broncos will recognize Thunder the grey Arabian. There are actually three different Arabians that act as their mascot, all are fading roans that were born grey and turned white with age. Enzo is part of Breyer's Breeds of the World collection. He is a chestnut pinto on the Mangalarga Marchador mold. He represents the national horse of Brazil perfectly. Ok unicorn lovers. Here is one you will want to add to your collection. Meet Cascade and Caspian the blue mare and foal pair. The mare is done on Connemare Mare mold and the foal is on the Phantom Wings mold. Of course Breyer has to have new babies every so often and this year is no different. This Best of British Foal Set includes a Hackney foal and a Thoroughbred foal to add to your foal collection. The 2019 limited edition to flagship stores only will be Seamus. I don't expect this horse to be released until closer to the spring though but I'm already putting him on my list. He is a beautiful bay Spotted Draft horse that will be limited to only 2500 pieces. Above are the new Classics sized horses to be released for 2019. You can click on the picture to enlarge them to see the whole horse(s). Another Mystery Horse Surprise will be released... but I think we all saw this coming since they have a series 2 on other blind bags. They do have lots of good molds in the new Mystery Horse Surprise with a surprise silver charm on the Alborozo mold as the chaser. Breyer is also adding a second Unicorn Surprise. They will have the same exact molds as the first but with all new colors and the new black gold filigree chaser shown above. They are a Walmart exclusive, along with the new Horse Crazy single packs. Breyer will be releasing a series 3 in their Mini Whinnies surprise blind bags. It makes me wonder if they will be making a series 3 in their stablemates blind bags as well?
Being in the Stablemate Club has re-ignited my passion for collecting these tiny ponies. My stablemate collection is growing bigger and bigger now. I mean I have to be pretty selective as to what traditional sized horses I keep in my herd but you can keep far more stablemates in a smaller space. Not to say that I'm any less picky with my stablemates though. After some debating, I have decided to renew my SM Club membership. I kept going back and forth because the horses being released this coming year don't "wow" me like in previous years. There are quite a few I plan to sell. The Stablemates Club is supposed to release not just one but TWO new molds next year. The photo above from my annual Just About Horses magazine shows the molds which will be used. There is always a vintage mold, a drafter, a smaller mold used as the gambler's choice, Mirado will now be colored as a blood red chestnut and now two new molds: a walking Thoroughbred and walking Irish Draught. This is the stunning blood red chestnut (with light dappling, no less) on the Mirado mold that will be released during the 2019 Stablemates Club. His name is Fiero and he will be a gambler's choice on either matte or glossy. I'm really hoping for the glossy version. Usually I don't care whether my horses are glossy or not, but considering the fact that this coloring is quite common, I'd much prefer it in glossy since I'm paying the extra money. The color is, at least in my opinion, a lot better on this mold than the original color Mirado was released on in the club. Are they ever going to make a regular run with this guy? This horse's name is Gwenevere and she will be the vintage mold for the club. She is a glossy palomino on the Morgan Mare mold. If I liked the mold, I probably would keep her, despite the fact that her coloring - like Fiero's - is also quite common. However, since vintage molds aren't my thing, I will be offering her for sale when she is released. Meet Priscilla the horse on the Belgian mold. She is a grey leopard appaloosa drafter to signify strength and beauty. I do like drafters and appaloosas so I'll probably end up keeping her. As per what I expected, the silver bay Highland Pony will be part of the gambler's choice and not a model on her own. Each year in the Stablemates Club, Breyer offers four different colors available as a gambler's choice... this means you get 1 out of the 4 colors shown and you have no idea which one you will end up with. In addition to the silver bay is a decorator, a perlino appaloosa (probably my favorite next to the silver bay) and a blue roan medicine hat. Really I'd be happy with any of these guys. Meet Greyson, who is one of the two new molds for the Stablemates Club. The horse is cute, looks like a miniature version of Carrick, but I'm a bit disappointed with this coloring. It looks very similar to Coco from a couple years ago. I will probably end up keeping him though because Thoroughbreds are one of my favorite breeds. According to the artist, he is a baby from the Puchilingui line. Remember Sato? It was his sire: https://www.oakwoodfarmtb.com/Puchilingui.htm
Breyer is again offering a free model to Collector Club members only with their annual CC appreciation special. Purchase $125 of regular runs on their website and you get a free model if you're one of the first 550 people to order. Estimated cost of the free gift is $150 so you will be getting a good deal because the prices of the glossies from previous years were often well over that estimate, so if you don't like the one you get, you can always resell it. You could get either a glossy Peace of Mind, glossy Cobra, glossy Paint Me a Pepto, glossy Shire or a glossy Kodi model. They are limited to 110 pieces per model.
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