Hello and welcome to another installment of Featured JAH! I hope everyone enjoyed last week's inaugural installment of the new blog series. This week's issue is Summer I 1993. Let's get right into it, shall we? Oh, before I start - I forgot to mention this last week, but JAH started out as a tri-fold pamphlet before eventually morphing into the form seen here, which was a half-size magazine measuring 8.5" x 5.5". Probably not a coincidence that the magazine is the same size as a standard sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper when laid out flat. This will become relevant later, I promise.
These magazines will obviously show varying amounts of wear, but this one is in pretty good condition. Anyway, this cover model is Sno-Jax Specialty, who appeared somewhat frequently in these old issues. The back cover is a random Appaloosa butt, presumably from Black Horse Ranch given that the photo is credited to Karen Grimm.
On the first page, we have a first sneak peek at the Spanish Barb (prior to receiving his clothes), and the Proud Mother and Newborn Foal gift sets on Lady Roxana and the CAF. On the opposite page we can see the ticket reservation form for Breyerfest '93. In those days, Friday night was called Old Kentucky Night every year (I think) and that was the big event where attendees feasted on cookout-type food and the Celebration Horses were handed out.
Okay, here's the Editor's Desk on page 2. In the photo with Megan you can see a prototype for the Mesteno "The Challenger" mold. There's some more of that goofy humor on this page with the "at last, the Club listing!" On the opposite page we have a description of Breyerfest 1993, in which the live show took place all day on Friday, the Old Kentucky Night dinner happened Friday night followed by the live auction, and the vendor show and raffle happened on Saturday...and that was about it. I guess Breyerfest wasn't quite as popular in those days, and there were no special runs other than the Celebration Horse and raffle. Again, I like the bit about "after staying up all night running from room to room in our host hotel, the Holiday Inn Lexington-North," (which is what the Clarion was called at the time). I've certainly never done that myself, but other people still do, I guess?
The centerfold of the magazine is this full-color preview of Nevada Star (the raffle model) and Grayingham Lucky Lad, the Celebration Horse. Huh, a scan of this exact page appears on the IDYB entry for this model. I guess that makes sense if no one has managed to get any photos of one since 1993.
On page 18 we have a preview of some of the Breyerfest 1993 auction models. Now, in those days the auction models weren't created specially for the auction - they were actual old tests from the archives. So that bay appaloosa Lady Phase is probably the test for Prairie Flower, the German export model for Equitana that year, and the black leopard Lady Phase is a sample for the regular run Family Appaloosa Mare. So the Classic Quarter Horse Family would have been the only colors readers hadn't seen prior to that point. On page 19 is the remainder of an article about live showing.
At the end of this issue is a Vintage Point focusing on Stud Spider, and you can also see the entry form for the Breyerfest 1993 live show.
Here's the rest of the Stud Spider article. I edited out the other page because it was just the (blank) back side of the show entry form.
Other highlights from this issue: an article about Night Vision and Karen Grimm's Appaloosas, by Karen Grimm herself; making model horse props on a budget; Blast From the Past (featuring the Appaloosa Performance Horse).
That's it for this week's issue - check back next week for another exciting installment!
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