Wednesday, July 30, 2025

New Arrivals: Break out the Bubbles and Best of Breyerfest Series 6

 Greetings, readers! I bring you the last of this year's New Arrivals posts, with various Stablemates from this year's Breyerfest! Let's start with Prosecco! 
















Sorry for the not-so-great photo. I'm sure this little guy was the most popular of the four Break out the Bubbles single-day Stablemates - and it's not hard to see why! Augustus has been a pretty popular new mold, he's a fun color, and glossy to boot! Win-win. Now to try to figure out a breed assignment for him...

Next, here's Cava:


 













I love the color on this one! Such a rich shade of bay, and the gloss really makes it pop! What a pretty guy. 

Next, here's Bellini! 















I wondered if the polo pony version of this mold would ever be used again, and voila - here it is! Now I'm wondering if the old version of the mold still exists (probably). The only solution is to use both of them in the same release, clearly. Wait, that probably means more gambler's choice stuff! Never mind. 

I sold the fourth Break out the Bubbles model, so let's move on to the Best of Breyerfest Series 6! Here's Red Letter Day:


















She's a mini version of Tout Suite, the 2015 Breyerfest Live prize model on the Hackney mold. She's a nice color, and her green ribbons are cute. Not much else to say about her, I guess. 

















Lastly for today, we have Jubilation, a mini version of Truffles, the 2015 diorama contest prize model. He's very pearly - I approve! Not sure what breed to assign to him, though - I suspect the Truffles owners had/have the same problem. 

I didn't keep the three other models in this set, so that brings us to the end of New Arrivals for this year! Soon I'll start working on Breyerfest Closeups, a series documenting the new models we got to see in the Collector Club tent this year. One last note - the Breyerfest online content access has been extended, and there's going to be a Breyerfest second chance sale after all! I'm excited to hear more about it! 

3 comments:

  1. Maybe I can help you out a little, Fabala.
    If you need breed suggestions, why not use "Prosecco" as a American Harlequin Sugarbush Draft?? I plan to show mine as one at the next "live" show I attend!! Don't see why it couldn't work as he resembles the real "Harley"!
    As far as Jubilation goes, you might have to do some historical digging. Although I seem to remember Lesli Kathman writing an article about pinto Fjords around the turn of the century before the color was bred out. I forgot what the color was known as--but I do remember the article had photos of real horses with the coloration. Hope this helps!

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    2. The problem with Sugarbush Draft is that everyone else will assign him that too, haha! I’d like to find something that gets him away from all the other Prosecco models (I assume there will be many).

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