Excitement!

I've been collecting Breyer model horses since the mid-1990s. Not super seriously, but every now and then, when I'd see a model I liked, I'd scoop it up. But lately, I've rediscovered my love of the pony molds. Shetlands, Haflingers, Hackneys, you name it. And then when recently flipping through a back issue of a model horse magazine from 1996/7, I remembered one of my favorite Breyer pony molds ever: the Cantering Welsh Pony. There is just something about the movement to this mold that I find really appealing.

The CWP was sculpted by Chris Hess, the artist who made most of the vintage Breyer molds, and was first released in the early 1970s. Since then the mold has been redone in a variety of colors over the years. It's not a very rare mold. Like not rare at all. But somehow I had always just missed getting one.

That ended today! I am pleased to present to you #866 Plain Pixie, my own red roan CWP! This particular color was available from 1992-1993.