Breyer was all set to reveal its new portrait model of the famous jumper Sapphire on May 22nd.  Endearingly enough, the big reveal was done during an ice cream social, at the Old Salem Farm Spring Horse Show.  So now that the official reveal was almost a month ago, where's the model?


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I bought a hourse about a year ago, other than his name and his age I know nothing about his history or origin. He has two brands one on his left shoulder which was given to him by the man I bought him from. He also has a brand on his left hip that I don't know, but I am hoping it'll tell me something about him. The brand on his left hip id a capital "D" over a O-ring snaffle bit. Does anyone know this brand? He is a large sorrel gelding that looks like he may be an Appendix he is around 15 years old. If you know anything please let me know I would loe to get some history on him.Timbers brand: You can see the brand better hereTimber: This is my gelding you can sort of see the brand on his hip

I adopted a BLM mustang recently, from a neighbor who purchased her from an auction. She is about 4 yrs old. I have bathed twice before, first two bathes of her life. I was bathing her today and noticed thick gunk, like a moist black/brown tar-like substance, not sure how else to explain it, between her utters. It does come off but did not want to start scrubbing and pulling it off before I asked for some advice. Is this ok to remove, is it a normal build up after 4 yrs w/o bathing? Thanks!

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My mare is having trouple keeping her hip in place which is making it really hard to keep her sound. Any suggestions on what to do to keep her sound?

In a recent roundup, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management took 1,922 wild horses away from their home in the Calico Mountain Complex of Nevada. These wild mustangs are supposed to be protected beneath the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, a federal law since 1971.

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Rachel AlexandraRachel Alexandra, the racehorse voted "Horse of the Year" at the Thoroughbred Racing Association's Eclipse Awards earlier this week, has been announced as the latest choice for a Breyer "portrait model."  Rachel Alexandra narrowly beat out Zenyatta for the Horse of the Year award, 130 votes to 99, which marks the first time that two female racehorses were finalists for the award.

2009 was an amazing year for female race horses, with both Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta finishing out the year with perfect winning records.  Rachel Alexandra won all eight of the races she participated in, beating out stallions in several high stakes races including the Preakness, Haskell, and Woodward Stakes.  In fact, she was the first filly to win the Preakness in the 85 years since Nellie Morse won in 1924.


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Recently while I was researching a new Breyer Horse model, I ran across a horse breed I had never heard of: the Spanish Jennet.  In fact, a lot of source seem to be confusing or conflating the breed of horse of the Breyer model - the Knabstrupper - with the Spanish Jennet.  

Just to clarify the situation, the Knabstrupper is a breed of horse developed in the early 1800s from a single spotted mare.  The mare may or may not have been of Jennet blood, but the Knabstrupper could plausibly be seen as an extension of the Jennet breed.  However, the Jennet itself is an ancient breed - literally ancient, as it was first documented in the prehistoric Paleolithic cave art of Lascaux and Altamira.  In other words, the Knabstrupper is an offshoot of the Spanish Jennet.


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Endurance riding is a challenging sport. Most states have local chapters of the AERC, or regional endurance-riding clubs and organizations. If you've never done it, my experience of endurance-riding horsefolk is that they're welcoming, helpful, and will bend over backwards to answer beginner questions, and encourage you and your horse safely through your own first endurance-riding experience. And there's a lot to learn.

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Because of new, and much more damaging developments, Nevada's Wild Horses are now in even more danger of being sent to slaughter or killed outright. . Even Nevada's Wild Horse Birth Control Program was stopped and orders were actually given out to kill orphan foals rather than send them to volunteer caregivers.

I will be attending this protest.  I have 34 reasons that call our ranch home.PLEASE HELP -- Visit my website & download the Petition (right hand side). WE NEED SIGNATURES. Get as many signatures as possible and send the sheets to the address on the petition.