The BreyerFest Swap Meet is held in the evening on Friday, July 17 at the Holiday Inn North.  Whether you are looking to sell some of your vintage models or simply make room in your collection for your new BreyerFest finds, the Swap Meet is the place to do it!

Spaces are filling fast so be sure to send in your application before we are sold out.

BreyerFest has partnered with Avis Rent A Car to offer special discounts and rates to BreyerFest attendees.  Be sure to reserve your rental car with Avis to receive this special rate. 

A Reminder -  none of the Lexington area hotels are within walking distance of the horse park.

BreyerFest is 20 years old, so we’ve got 20 fun facts for you!

1 is the number of Celebration Horses selected for BreyerFest each year.

2 is the number of charity raffles held at BreyerFest - one on Saturday and one on Sunday.  Tickets are available at the Breyer Booth.

3 days of BreyerFest!

4 inches in a hand when measuring real horses.  This is based on the old-fashioned way of  measuring a horse’s height using the palm of your hand, approximately 4 inches.

5 different Gambler’s Choice Limited Edition Stablemates available with each single day ticket.  All come in a great mini tote bag!

6 ,000+ attendees at BreyerFest every year!

7 pm - the time the Swap Meet opens on Friday at the Holiday Inn North.

8 is the number of legs in the Heidi and Edelweiss cow set from BreyerFest 2008.

9 weeks until BreyerWest 2009!

10 is how old Breyer portrait model & BreyerFest equine guest Kuchi turned this year.

11 is the number of horses used to fill the role of Cochise in the television series Bonanza.

12 is how old BreyerFest performer Lizzy Traband will be next year.

13,500 dollars was the record-breaking price that a custom-painted Alborozo model was  sold for in 2008 at the BreyerFest Live Benefit Auction to benefit various charities.

14 is the age of Breyer’s new portrait model and Brianne Goutal’s mount, Mon Gamin.

15 of March is the birthday of Stacy Westfall’s partner and BreyerFest Birthday Bash’s  Celebration Horse, Whizards Baby Doll.

16^.3 hands is the height of the real Sheik af Hallundbaek, a new Breyer portrait model.

17 of July is the first day of BreyerFest!  The event runs July 17-19, 2009.

18 stallions were entered in the 1993 100 Day Stallion Performance Test.  Of them, Idocus (2009 Breyer portrait model) was the youngest and greenest yet went on to become the   Grand Champion and held the highest jumping score of all the stallions.

19 91 was the only year multiple BreyerFests were held across the United States.  They were in  Oregon, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and California.

20 years of celebrating model horses and good friends at BreyerFest!

Be sure to stop by to see a BreyerFest Special Run Sneak Peak April 2-5 at Equine Affaire in Columbus, Ohio!  Walkabout Farm and The Ginger Horse will both be previewing our 2009 BreyerFest Birthday Bash Special Run models at their booths! 

See some of your favorite models already featured in JAH plus a few extra special new releases that have not been revealed anywhere else! 

For information on Equine Affaire, visit www.equineaffaire.com

Say “hi” to Sam and Ginger with The Ginger Horse and Val and Gary with Walkabout Farm!

Bill and Wendy, owners of Kuchi, sent us this picture of Kuchi’s birthday party yesterday.   Turning 10 is a big deal and the Riccis threw Kuchi a party with some of her closest friends and family!

Here is Kuchi enjoying her birthday “cake” in front of all her birthday cards made by Breyer collectors.

Wendy also pointed out that our winner’s card has a secret message!  “Happy” is written in the markings of the horses on the front and “Birthday” is hidden in the grass.  Can you spot the message for Kuchi?

Today Breyer Portrait Model and special BreyerFest Birthday Bash guest Kuchi is celebrating her 10^th birthday!  Her birthday is particularly noteworthy to the history of the Gypsy Vanner breed because Kuchi was the first Vanner to be born in the United States.

We asked you to create birthday cards that we sent on to Kuchi for her birthday. We had a hard time picking a winner so we decided to award a glossy model to the first place winner and two regular run Kuchi models for second and third place!

The birthday card contest Grand Prize Winner of a glossy model of the beautiful birthday girl is…

 Audre Schutte of Oshkosh, WI

Audre created a beautiful watercolor card with a special message inside: “From the Old World…to the New”.  Better yet, her card featured exciting music reminiscent of a Gypsy celebration! 

 Second place goes to Cari Chaney from Norwich, CT with her “Genuine Gypsy Parts” pop up card and Katie Dema of DeKalb, IL earned third place with her ultra girly glittery Kuchi card!

 Congratulations!

Bill and Wendy Ricci, owners of Kuchi, were so impressed with the birthday cards that they created a display to take to Equine Affaire in April!  Be sure to visit them if you’ll be there!

Whether you sent a birthday card or not, be sure to stop by and say hi to Kuchi and wish her a happy belated birthday at BreyerFest this year!

The Carriers and their fabulous mare will be at BreyerFest again this year to help us celebrate our 20^th anniversary. Bluegrass Bandit, a 2002 grey Tennessee Walking Horse mare, is known to steal the show when it comes to Trail Pleasure classes.  At the 2005 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration, Bandit was crowned the World Champion in Youth English Trail Pleasure and in Amateur Owned and Trained Western Trail Pleasure.  It the end, she was named the World Grand Champion in Western Pleasure and was voted the Trail Pleasure Horse of the Year by Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse Magazine.  Come meet Bandit and her owners Chip, Bonny and Jared Carrier of Gobblers Knob Farm at BreyerFest Birthday Bash!

We have finally selected the Kuchi Birthday Card Contest winner!  We aren’t going to tell you just yet though.  You’ll have to wait until Kuchi’s birthday, March 18, for that news! 

I can tell you this: We had such a hard time selecting a winner that we decided to award a glossy Kuchi to first place and two regular Kuchi models to 2nd and 3rd place! 

Here’s a picture of the cards boxed up and ready to go to Bill and Wendy Ricci for Kuchi.

Kick off BreyerFest with a show that shines! Breakables is an all-china & OF Resin/Cold Cast Porcelain show. This special show, hosted by Breyer at the Holiday Inn North, is for horses and other equids made using clay, bone china, porcelain, and resin (for large production OF finish runs only).

Many of the hobby’s finest artists have created some of the most exquisite pieces in china and fine examples of these will be at the show. If you are a china and/or and OF resin collector, then this is the place you need to be!

Date & Location

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Hall opens for set up at 2 pm

Judging starts at 3 pm SHARP

Lexington, KY

Holiday Inn North/Swap Meet Room

For complete rules and information visit the BreyerFest® Model Horse Shows section of this webpage.

Breakables at the Breyerfest Birthday Bash 2009 is a NAMHSA member show. All horses that place first or second in any of the breed or collectibility classes will receive a NAN card good for entry into 2010/2011 NAN. For complete information on NAMHSA, go to www.namhsa.org

Who’s There?

Kuchi.

Kuchi who?

Kuchi kuchi coo!

That joke brought a smile to our face when we read it inside one of the amazing Kuchi Birthday Cards we received. 

We’ve been bitten by the birthday bug here at Breyer!  We received so many beautiful Kuchi cards that we decided to display them on a bulletin board in the office for everyone to enjoy.  Almost everyone stopped to read the birthday wishes sent for Kuchi.  

Stayed tuned for Kuchi’s birthday when we announce the winner of our Birthday Card contest.