Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured JAH! This week's issue is Mar/Apr 1997. We're wishing for spring here, but this will have to suffice - so let's get going!
On the front cover, a cutting horse shows off his flexibility. On the back cover are the contenders in a JAH popular vote! Readers could vote on which color they liked best. I don't think I voted in this contest, but I think I liked the red roan best (spoiler alert: the gray pinto won).
In the Editor's Desk section, we have a photo of Stephanie with prolific Breyer sculptor Kathleen Moody. How is Kathleen doing nowadays? Seems like we don't hear much from her these days, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s she sculpted many, many things for Breyer. I strongly believe the company would be in a very different place if not for Kathleen - it would be great to see something new from her! But I digress. On the opposite page, we have some information about Breyerfest 1997.
On page 6 we have an article about 1997 Celebration Horse Bold, and page 7 holds an article by Stephanie about horse photography.
After skipping an article about cutting and another article about tacking up, on pages 12-13 we have a Brushstrokes article about the creation of the Great Horse in Armor, and a coloring page of said Great Horse! I liked coloring as a child (and still do), so it's interesting that I never colored this page back when it was sent out. A mystery for the ages, I guess.
After cropping out the rest of the tacking up article on page 16, the Blast From the Past on page 17 shows a momentous discovery - the existence of the Small Poodle! Gotta wonder whatever happened to this blue Poodle? The mold in question was eventually put into production to make a few raffle Poodles at Breyerfest 1997, an auction model in 2000 and then used again as the animal special run in 2009. It's been quiet since then - maybe it'll make a reappearance at some point? I don't think the pink one sold all that well, but you never know.
This issue's centerfold features Bold! I liked poring over these photographs because Bold was such a pretty horse. Gotta love a nice palomino!
After skipping an article about photo showing western pleasure, on page 24 we have a followup article about the Kiger Mustang herd, featuring Rojo. I don't think we ever did get an update about the mysterious claybank stallion, though. I cropped out the first page of Horse Trader on page 25.
This issue's Vintage Point article featured the Quarter Horse Gelding - fitting, considering the back cover's popular vote!
That's it for this week's issue. Check back next week for May/June 1997!
That's it for this week's issue. Check back next week for May/June 1997!
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