We all love to see this eye candy, although the majority of us will never own one, myself included since they're now allowing online bidding at Breyerfest, as well as in person bidding. I understand though that this will help inflate prices to sky high, record prices that will raise more money for their selected charities. Whether you plan to bid or not, here is the list of live auction lots (I'll add more as Breyer reveals them) so we can all drool over them while at the same time finding out who is not going to be the surprise horse this year! Shannondell! A big, big surprise guess is officially eliminated (I speculated it wouldn't be Shannondell because of Cardinal being released just last winter but didn't want to give those who guessed Shannondell their hopes up) with this stunning boy, a beautiful bay leopard appaloosa with peacock spotting. I can definitely see this guy going up there in price. This one hurts a bit not to be able to add to my collection, as the Andalusian Stallion is one of my non-Premier Club molds that I conga. With his beautiful dapple sooty palomino coat, I'm loving this one. I like how his mane/tail are blonde rather than the old man grey or silvering in the mane/tail that they like to make on many of their sooty palominos. A beautiful glossy bay tobiano Fighting Stallion with his cat track markings and most likely mapping, this guy would be the perfect sire for the Robin and Nestling pair. Latigo honestly wasn't a mold I cared for at first (too skinny for what I like to see in a stock horse) however I've somehow over the years managed to end up with a small conga of him, and have honestly always wanted him in a solid dapple grey. One day, hopefully, as he looks amazing in this star dapple grey! I understand that a lot of these live auction models are Breyer testing out new colors, and this is a first for this one. Supposed to be a dark chestnut but with black legs? Possibly more of a brown than a chestnut to me, but this is what Breyer has him listed as. I guess that eliminates Valegro as a possibility for the surprise model (some people speculated him for this Warmblood heavy theme) since he's in the live auction. I love how Breyer made this guy a "sun faded bay pinto" because this is a color I've been dying for it to pop up in Breyers. In Stones they have a sunburnt bay, and I've been hoping Breyer would make their own version of it one day. This guy has some neat mapping too! While I wasn't expecting the Icelandic myself, several others were guessing him since drafters, Warmbloods and ponies are taking over the German theme. A bit of a surprise to see the return of this mold, but the Missouri Fox Trotter is making an appearance as a chalky shaded dun. While I'm not sure how the color really looks on a Missouri Fox Trotter (a better choice would have been a mold like Fireheart) I'm loving his striped hooves and the realistic leg barring. The Firefly and Hawkeye molds return as a unique pair. A sunbleached (again, thank you Breyer for finally toying with the sun bleaching) dark bay frame overo with blue eyes and her buckskin foal. I still laugh at the tired looking old mare and the spunky foal in contrast. If that doesn't represent motherhood, I don't know what does. Esprit has been making quite a return lately, with just being used as the patriotic model last year and as Apollo for Breyerfest 2021. He is making yet another return at Breyerfest this year in the form of this guy, a red bay tobiano. As he was already used as a Breyerfest surprise model, he won't be a surprise again. Welp... this eliminates Bristol officially as the surprise. Although not on my top 3 list mostly due to her being a Breyerfest model last year, I was secretly wishing for her as a potential surprise for this year due to Germany being well known for their Warmblood horses. I guess it wasn't her year. Soon, hopefully. She is being done as a leopard appaloosa in Germany's flag colors. We're seeing Fireheart also show up as an auction model after seeing him already used as special run, Stein. This guy is a few spot appaloosa with Indian war paint. While I do love models with Indian war paint, Breyer likes to put it on models with a lot of white (the Vintage Club Foundation Stallion "Nonoma" for example) however when they used it with Spirit and the buckskin appaloosa regular run made 2013-2015 I added both of those to my personal collection. This horse was most likely a variation of the celebration horse, Dani, from last year's Breyerfest that for whatever reason didn't make it to production. She has a beautiful rainbow interference finish. All of you who guessed Hamilton as the surprise horse this year... unfortunately I think this throws him out. Although he wasn't one of my top three, I'm secretly a bit disappointed too because, after selling off my Hamilton collection last year, I decided to get them back and I would love to see more colors on this mold. However he is in the live auction as a lush dappled dark bay with a high gloss finish. This gal is probably my favorite live auction piece! I love roans and this red roan pintaloosa is irresistible! Also, check out that new mane! Is this a hint that Rapunzel may be the 50/50 mane split with this new mane type being the other potential half? We can only hope... All hail the return of Silver on a beautiful silvery pegasus! It's been ages since we've seen a pegasus at Breyerfest so fantasy lovers will be incredibly happy with this piece! The shimmery coral blue returns with this mare and foal set! Does this mean that the Vintage Club mare/foal set won't be this pair? If so that'll narrow it down a bit. Or perhaps this was a sample for that set? Hopefully we'll be finding out soon! This mold was another popular guess for the surprise horse, although I was hesitant to put him at the top of my list due to him being released as both Sjoerd and Kingfisher. However people were speculating that since he was released only as the modified version meant they could have still used his original draft version, but I'm pretty sure this eliminates him. He is being used in the auction instead as a glossy honey bay with blue/black points. This beautiful black sabino Nokota is a beauty that whoever wins will behold. Obviously since Nokota was used as a surprise previously he couldn't be used again but it is nice to see the return of this mold, and a beautiful color to boot! I'm not sure how I feel about the partial roached mane, though. Roached manes have always been a make it or break it for me in models. I sold off my Smarty Jones "Santiago" and decided against "Turnbridge Wells" because of their roached manes. I'm not sure what color Breyer was trying to make here but I kind of like it! He is listed as "dapple grey" on the auction but page he looks like he also has a frame overo middle with appaloosa spots? I'm assuming this was a test color, perhaps for Brahms? Perhaps he was left unfinished which explains the enormous amount of unpainted area. Or could he be a fading roan? Who knows?
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