I'm rather picky on my horses. I have to be, or else I'd be buying every Breyer on the market. I'm on a modest budget now that I'm an adult and can't make a 20 horse list for Christmas every year (I must have driven my parents batty!) so I've come to collect certain colors that I look for in my horses. Again, this is all opinion. I'm not here to start fights with anyone, and certainly can appreciate a "plain bay" in real life. I have one myself and I am honestly American Pharoah's number one fan. Honestly. I'm just more picky about models because they make a ton of bays in Breyer horses. Just an FYI these colors are in no particular order. Sometimes there have been horses on the colors below and I have still bypassed them either due to being out of my price range or on a mold I didn't like but these are the colors I tend to collect the most of. Dapple GreyThe "dapple" part is what I emphasis. I don't buy grey horses unless they're dappled. Shaded greys are too plain for me. Not all dappled greys make the cut either. The darker the better. BuckskinUnlike dapple greys, I will collect a buckskin whether it is dappled or not. I haven't come across a buckskin I didn't like unless it's on a mold I didn't like. DunI'm a sucker for red duns, although I will collect brown duns if they have the typical dorsal stripe and/or leg barring common in duns. My mustang Koda is a dun. He has the dorsal stripe but lacks the leg barring so as long as they have one or the other, I'm fine with it. Some of Breyer's previous duns look more like bays though because they lack the dorsal stripe and leg barring. A good example is Andante. RoanThis color, in my opinion, is not used enough in Breyers. I prefer the shaded roans over the ones with the freckles, as they look much more realistic, although I do collect both. It doesn't matter what color of roan, except fleabitten grey. The freckles aren't enough to make me pay that much for what is pretty much plain plastic. GrulloAs with all previous colors, there are limitations to grullos too. For example, I didn't like Glorioso. That shade of grullo looked more bay or brown than grullo. I prefer the greyish grullos over the browns. I will collect the brown grullo only if they have a nice pinto or appaloosa pattern. A couple good examples are Quill and Gideon. Silver Bay or ChestnutThe contrast of the dark coat with the starking light mane/tail was always eye candy for me. I was happy to add Celeste to my herd, and although Abdul and Treasured Moves weren't considered silver chestnuts, they still had a shocking light blonde mane/tail with a chocolate chestnut body. Both are permanent members of my collection. PalominoI'm probably the most picky on this color, of any of my favorites. As with grey horses, I only collect dappled palominos. I only like either golden yellow palominos or darker "sooty" palominos. I would love to add a cremello or perlino to my collection, although Breyer doesn't make many of those. Pintos/PaintsBreyer makes dozens of pinto patterns, there's no denying that, and there's also no denying that I'd be broke if I tried to collect them all. So, like with my favorite colors, there has to be some limitations. I prefer jagged or sketchy pintos over ones with clean, straight markings. I also don't like a ton of white on my horses. Good examples of pintos with too much white are Jake and Isadore Cruce. I will collect colors that aren't my favorite provided they are on a nice loud pinto pattern and a mold I like. Blue EyesAlthough not a body color, one thing that sells me on a horse no matter the body coloring is if it has blue eyes. It's a bonus if that horse is on a color I like, which is how I ended up winning Teton earlier in the year.
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