Breyer horses are like potato chips ...

sortepletter wrote:

Susanne, of course you are right! My trotter is no trotter but a Pacer. Breyer calls it a Standardbred.

I googeled it, and it seems that in USA they use pacing standardbreds for "Harnes-racing"
In Scandinavia we only have racing in trot or galop

I am not sure I loke the way they make them pace  
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They don't make them pace, some Standardbreds do this naturally (and such horses are more popular in the USA). The harness just prevents them from troting, as it's against the rules

What an amazing collection !

Have you ever noticed how much Standardbred horses look like each other, while English Thoroughbreds have more variations in their coat colors and white marks? That is because Standardbreds all come from the same stallion (Hambletonian), while English Thoroughbreds originate from four stallions, back in the 18th century. The bloodlines of the Standardbreds are a lot narrower than the English Thouroughbreds'.

I never knew that, probably because I think I never saw a Standardbred. In Germany we have trotting races (not pacing) and Trotters come in all sizes. There are no Pacers at all, but people like Trotters für leisure riding, because quite a lot of them can do the Tölt.

sortepletter wrote:

Thank you! The horses were supposed to 'live' in the horse-room only, but now they have invaded the living room too. There even was a time when there were books on the shelves ...

Been there, done that!  My collection out-grew the horse/work room so there are as many, if not more, in the living room, kitchen, front bathroom, master bathroom, dining room and master bedroom.

Presently there are 25 horses above & around my computer, 55 in the china horses' cabinet, 2 above the desk at the far end of the dining room, 5 in the corner china cabinet, and big herd of horse ornaments hanging on the chandelier.  I've long since lost count of the ornaments, but I <think> there's at least 35.  I'll see if I can find a picture of it.

Yes please  I'd love to see that
I'm nearly out of space and I'll never know what posessed me to get another conga consisting of giants ...
Here they are - cute, but BIG
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At least the following newcomers are small ones
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Running out of space and acquiring a conga giants show how much you love these figures! I don't believe they'll solve your problem.
There's a lot of action in your pictures, thanks for showing!

Jennypurr wrote:

.....  I've long since lost count of the ornaments, but I <think> there's at least 35.  I'll see if I can find a picture of it.

Wow ! Yes ! I would love o see it also

Simone, your conga horses are just wonderful. They go Quadrille dance and very elegantly

Roger is right, - your photos are wonderful

Bowhead Whale wrote:

Have you ever noticed how much Standardbred horses look like each other, while English Thoroughbreds have more variations in their coat colors and white marks? That is because Standardbreds all come from the same stallion (Hambletonian), while English Thoroughbreds originate from four stallions, back in the 18th century. The bloodlines of the Standardbreds are a lot narrower than the English Thouroughbreds'.

Actually a lot of different breeds went into the Standardbred.  Morgans, Hackneys and TBs along with a few breeds no longer around (Narragansett Pacer & Norfolk Trotter).  Hambletonian's great-grand sire was Messenger who was a grey TB, so there would have been greys in his line.  I have seen photos of pinto Standardbreds (mostly in Australia) and have a few fuzzy (taken in a barn) photos of roans.  So, while most are bay, brown or black, they also come in pinto, roan, chestnut and grey.

[quote="sortepletter"]Yes please  I'd love to see that

I can't find the old picture so I'll have to take a new one.  But the next problem is I don't know how to get the picture from our Picasa program to this site.  I read the FAQs, but it implies I have to move pictures from some online site to this one and we don't have such a site.  I suppose I could email the photo to someone and they could post it.....

Perhaps one of our admins can help?
I've got a new Breyerfest Special. It is called Champagne Toast and came wrapped in a blue plastic bag so one could not see what was inside. But when I unwrapped it, I did not find the one I expected [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] but this:
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Jennypurr wrote:

sortepletter wrote:

Yes please  I'd love to see that

I can't find the old picture so I'll have to take a new one.  But the next problem is I don't know how to get the picture from our Picasa program to this site.  I read the FAQs, but it implies I have to move pictures from some online site to this one and we don't have such a site.  I suppose I could email the photo to someone and they could post it.....

You can make a free account on e.g. Photobucket or Flickr and post your photos there to share them here and on other websites :)

The forum also has an option of adding photo straight from your computer:

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You just click "Select files", choose photos from your computer, send them and copy one of given links for each photos to show them here :)
I just did it with the screenshot above

sortepletter wrote:

Perhaps one of our admins can help?
I've got a new Breyerfest Special. It is called Champagne Toast and came wrapped in a blue plastic bag so one could not see what was inside. But when I unwrapped it, I did not find the one I expected [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] but this:
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Oh, perhaps you should contact the seller?
He is very interesting though and I don't think I have seen this colour variant ever before. Congrats!

HOLY COW!!!!

You are an EXTREMELY lucky girl!!!!

During this year of BreyerFest, Breyer painted each of the SR models silver, and there were only 25 made of each one!!! You now have a run of only 25! He sells for a lot, about $1,000USD! Congratulations!

SUPER jealous here, I would pass out if I opened that!

LeeAnn wrote:

HOLY COW!!!!

You are an EXTREMELY lucky girl!!!!

During this year of BreyerFest, Breyer painted each of the SR models silver, and there were only 25 made of each one!!! You now have a run of only 25! He sells for a lot, about $1,000USD! Congratulations!

SUPER jealous here, I would pass out if I opened that!

WOW !!! Simone, - this seems to be a once-in-a-lifetime luck

CONGRATULATIONS with your new silvery beauty

SUSANNE wrote:

WOW !!! Simone, - this seems to be a once-in-a-lifetime luck

CONGRATULATIONS with your new silvery beauty

And you know it's rare I get this excited about something

Haha, thanks LeeAnn! When I opened the bag I was totally disappointed and thought the vendor sent me the wrong horse. And then I googled the silver one and started to smile. I think now I'll need a PayPal account to sell it in the US - in Germany it'll probably fetch around 50 Euros.
Today I got another ordinary (booooring) Breyer. Here the new "Tristan" meets the residents.
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BOORING ??????????

Well , compared to Captain Silver, perhaps, but they are just fantastic

I'll gladly take him

Ooh I still need to get a Tristan, they aren't easy to find for a good price.

Oh, Tristan was the least expensive Breyer this week. I spent some serious money ...
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Congrats

Great horses, I suppose you're asking Admin's help because of the post below and surely not becaue you won the lottery, isn't it?

Jennypurr wrote:

sortepletter wrote:

Yes please  I'd love to see that

I can't find the old picture so I'll have to take a new one.  But the next problem is I don't know how to get the picture from our Picasa program to this site.  I read the FAQs, but it implies I have to move pictures from some online site to this one and we don't have such a site.  I suppose I could email the photo to someone and they could post it.....

You can e-mail your pictures to me or to any other moderator. Though, I believe you can use Picasa to post here.
Just go to your Picasa website. Choose the picture, click right mouse butoon over it and choose the option "copy picture address" from the menu.
Then, on forum, where youwrite your message, you can find on top several little icons, using your mouse over them, you'll find what they are, please click the one that reads 'insert image', a little box will openclick right button of your mouse in the line under URL, and select paste from the menu. Ignore all the rest and just click the insert button.
Either it results in a code or in a picture, it means that the picture is already in your post, just click preview to check if it is showing as you expect. If it is correct, just click send and your picture will be posted. Much easier to do than explain, you can also follow Magda's suggestion. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any doubts.

Ohhh ! You got Elska, the grey Icelandic Mare

I wonder why se is so darned expensive
I had to make a very difficult choice this week : do I want her, or a whole lot of ultre-rare NeoForm composition models.
Well, now I can enjoy your photo

Congratulations with two more wonderful models