I have come to a rather crushing and sad peace with the worst thing to happen in a long time, which occurred last Friday night and which I'd rather not address publicly. I had a fine Saturday, managing to enjoy the Scottsdale Arabian Show despite the occurrences the night before, but Sunday I caught some rechid cold-flu that has left me rather couch-ridden since. It is the usual suspects; soar throat, inordinate amounts of flem, and tiredness. The Laptop was not an option until yesterday, which I spent catching up on such pleasures as the Breyerfest Blog and Collector Club Forums, aside from emails and the normal, un-entertaining business. Tea has been of great help here, as now I am more mobile and can actually move my fingers in semi-rapid succession. That was an unnecessary explanation for my absence, and so I congratulate you if you are still reading. Thanks.
Something that has been floating around everywhere from Facebook (A water I dare not tred) to the Collector Club Forums is the Breyerfest Sunday Raffle Model, of which is (apparently FOR SURE) a palomino pinto Geronimo. This is Geronimo;
Beautiful model I'd say. Very daunting to someone who knows quite well she cannot afford the Premier Collection. It's a lovely bay pinto, though it appears to be a bit on the grullo-y side, and the mold is sculpted by the rather beloved Kitty Cantrell, although I believe I must refer to her as Mooning Piglet Studios. I adore her work, and Stock Horses in general, and the resemblance to the Peter Stone ISH is nice, too, though perhaps unintentional. Or most definitely unintentional. I will always have my conspiracy theories, or just theories, though conspiracy theories is cooler and funner to type. Anyway it is queer that a 2016 Premier Club Model has showed up even as an extremely limited Breyerfest 2016 model. I don't think Breyer has ever done this before. Considering that the Premier Club Members have not even received their Geronimo and he has already been revealed as a Raffle Model in 2016, it seems curious. But everyone is, un-blamebly, thrilled. It is no longer exclusively a Premeir2016 Model! Now ANYONE at Breyerfest who purchases a ticket could win one! The mold is not available EXCLUSIVELY to Premier Club Members in 2016!
I'm not sure how this is going over with actual Premier Members, but I suppose it depends on how much they like the mold and if they love it enough to want to see it used quite often. This could be Breyer making the mold an understandable option for a regular run in 2017, skipping over a year. It took Wyatt, the first premier model of 2014, two years to make his way to Regular Run hood. In 2014 he was just the Premier Model, as he should have been. In 2015 he was a Raffle model and then a TSC Special. Lastly he became Babyflo, a regular run for 2016. They are skipping over the second year and compiling raffle-model-hood and premier-model-hood into one year. I don't think Geronimo would be the choice for the 2017 TSC Special Run though, so this would logically mean that his next appearance would be as a RR. Why I compare him to Wyatt is for 4 reasons:
1: He is a Stock Horse Mold
2. He was the first model of a previous Premier Club
3. He was also a Breyerfest Raffle Model
4. He was also highly anticipated
I am not opposed to him being a Regular Run in 2017 at all, I just think it would be a strange move by Breyer. However it could happen, strange or not. I happen to think he'd be delightful in a satin jet black with chrome and a blue eye, but color is subject to different opinions.
What this could mean though, is that Breyer is anticipating Geronimo's mold arrival more than would be usual. We may never know.
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