New Additions: November 2025

Wow, it's been a month of blogging! Thanks to everyone who has tuned in so far!

At the end of each month, I'll do a recap of new additions to the herd. I hadn't planned to buy much in November as I was still financially recovering from everything we did to try to save Felice, but somehow I ended up with six models anyway.

I fell in love with the silver filigree Fighters the second someone spotted them in this year's Just About Horses magazine and posted a picture of them online. They're #10497 Killington and Little Killington, this year's winter decorators. Even though I knew I wanted a set, I waffled on buying them at first because of the aforementioned sad bank account. Then I decided that I deserved something nice (and I hadn't bought anything since early October, right before Felice started to get really sick) so I ordered. I'm so glad I did. They're both perfect.

The guy with the horse patterns on his butt is #10320 Sport Horse, part of Breyer's 75th Anniversary celebration. He's been on my want list all year - I love his color and I think using the outlines of Breyer sculpts as his pattern is really neat. (I've already located the Sham outlines.) I bought this guy on November 15 when my friends invited me out to visit The Spindled Hare, a new Breyer dealer that opened about an hour away. The shop was super cute and they also had four live horses/ponies on the property, including a Chincoteague Pony, who we got to meet. We will definitely go back!

This lovely lady is this year's Premier Club model #10210 Winifred. I only have a handful of mules in my collection, but I loved her soft, shaded chestnut color as soon as I saw her. There's a gray version also, which is equally pretty, but it's a micro run of 75 pieces sent randomly, and the chances of getting one were pretty slim. I'm sure there were a ton of Premier Club subscribers this year because (a) the sculpts were freaking fantastic, (b) they allowed you to pick glossy/matte finish on Cosimo and mane/tail variation on Rowan, making each piece a split run and therefore more collectible by default, and (c) they threw in the 75-piece micro run on Winifred, which always makes collectors foam at the mouth and buy things in droves for a chance at it. For those reasons, I think the Premier Club numbers probably hit a record high this year. Many people purchased multiple subscriptions.

Data Nerd Mel accounted for 595 distinct Premier Club subscriptions, thanks in part to all the kind souls who posted polls in Facebook groups to see which variations of Cosimo and Rowan people ordered. If I take into account the usual percentage of data I find, plus the cost of the Premier Club, which might be limiting for some folks, I feel comfortable estimating that the number I found is 25-30% of actual subscriptions.

The little Stablemate, Isla, is a new sculpt for this year. I didn't particularly care for her when I saw her in-person at BreyerFest, and I don't like her any better in hand, though the hobby is losing its collective minds over her. I might have liked her better with a different paint job - they only painted half her mane (which seems to be common for the run, judging from others' pictures) and masked it very poorly. She'll stick around for now; my "I can't break up sets" rule is coming into play here. I have both finishes of Cosimo, both mane/tail combos of Rowan, and the chestnut Winifred; it just seems wrong to send Isla off somewhere else, at least for now.

I didn't figure on getting this guy until December - but he showed up unexpectedly, without a shipping notice, on Black Friday. This is #10472 Salud, who was given to volunteers at this year's BreyerWest, BreyerFest, and the online BOO photo show. He was produced in three colors - black tobiano pinto, gray tobiano pinto, and this color, salpicada pinto, which looks like roaning but isn't. I received a salpicada pinto for volunteering with the BreyerFest Children & Youth Show and another, the model pictured here, for stewarding the Breyer Regular Run division for the online BOO photo show this past September. I would have preferred one of the other two colors so as to not have duplicates, but them's the breaks. I've never parted with one of my volunteer models, so I'll probably end up keeping both the salpicadas instead of trading for another color.