Featured JAH - 8/31/2024, Sept/Oct 2002

 Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured JAH! This week's issue is Sept/Oct 2002, so let's get started! 

On the front cover, Chris Kappler and Rafiki take a jump at the 2001 American Gold Cup. On the back cover, we see the coveted bronze Classic Shire! This mold and a few others were released in bronze around this time, but didn't sell well (they cost $225 in an era when paying $95 for a Connoisseur directly from Breyer was a princely sum). They ended up decorating tables in the Collector Club tent at Breyerfest for a few years, and now who knows where they are. 

Usually I skip the table of contents, but you get to see it this week because we get the debut of the second Halloween Horse, Nosferatu! Behold his awesomeness, and admire his bats with their clearly-visible, not-fuzzy-at-all outlines. 

In this week's Editor's Desk, Stephanie poses with a droolworthy Batal & Amira set and talks about the generosity of model horse hobbyists. On page 3 is the first part of the Breyerfest 2002 wrap-up! 

On page 4-5 is more Breyerfest wrapup. 

On page 6 is more recap, and page 7 has some nice quotes about Breyerfest! I see a few familiar names in that list. 

After skipping the Breyerfest live show results, a news roundup, Letters to the Editor and the Hope-N-Glory entry form, on page 14 we find the (unused) bronze Shire order form, and on page 15 is the announcement of the Design Spirit and Rain's Foal contest! Interestingly, participants were instructed to download and color one of three images of foals from the Breyer website. They were lineart drawings of Breyer foals - I think the Scratching Foal and Action Stock Horse Foals were two of them, but I can't remember what the third one was. Somewhere I still have the foals I designed for the contest, but never got around to sending in. 

After skipping an article about show jumping, on page 20-21 is an article about the real-life horse pair Cupid and Arrow. Where are they now? After some searching through Facebook posts, it appears that Arrow is still alive (with the same owner, at the same farm) as of Aug. 6 of this year, but Cupid has probably passed on (not surprising).

In this issue's centerfold is the pretty Hope-N-Glory, alluded to earlier in the magazine. Even in 2002, Lady Phase's forelock and ears were deteriorating badly. LP is a pretty popular mold, so I'm still wondering why they haven't tried to fix that. 

After skipping an article about jumps, another article about tackmaking, Horse Trader (down to 3 pages), and Breyer jr., on page 40-41 we have an article about goats accompanying the introduction of a new release on Breyer's companion goat mold! 

On page 42-43 is this week's Vintage Point article, featuring the PAM! 

And on page 44-45 is the rest of the PAM article! There are some droolworthy models in the photos - the woodgrain and appaloosa PAMs are both quite rare and hard to come by. But that brings us to the end of today's issue. Check back next week for Nov/Dec 2002!