Heading back into the realm of Stones for today’s Other Makes post.
The first Stone Thoroughbred to join my collection was Butter Pecan, a 2014 release from their Show Line series. I bought him in August 2014, when prices were a hell of a lot more reasonable than they are now - he was $68 shipped. [For comparison, the average price of a Traditional in 2025 (excluding Best Offers and DAH) was $512. Pretty frustrating.]
Anyway.
The Stone Horse Reference site describes Butter Pecan as a chocolate palomino, but he looks sooty to me. I typically don’t like cream dilutes unless they’re sooty, and I definitely don’t like them glossed (they’ll go too orange or two yellow in a heartbeat), so I left this guy matte. He shows well for me with documentation for the color. Of the 25 times he’s been on the table, he’s only been shut out of the ribbons twice. His show name is Good As Gold.
Next to arrive was this bright chestnut, Severance. For a brief period of time, Stone had a second website called Stone Ponys, which had its own separate inventory from the regular Stone site. I bought Severance from the Stone Ponys site in August 2015 and had him glossed. While I love the color and think he looks better in gloss than he did in matte, he has an outrageous amount of lint on his neck.
Having painted a model at the Stone factory in 2019, I’m pretty forgiving of lint, but I mean, look at that. This guy looks like he rolled around on one of those fuzzy velvet coloring pages right before he got glossed. He doesn’t show for that reason.
Captain Wentworth, a run of 10 pieces from Equilocity 2013, was my second-biggest Stone grail for a really long time. (In case you’re curious, Boaz was grail #1.) Superbly shaded red bays are my biggest weakness when it comes to model horses. I had a chance to buy him from the Stone site after Equilocity 2013, but couldn’t pull the trigger, and then kicked myself for years afterward.
On the evening of August 29, 2022, I posted an “In Search Of” ad for him on the Peter Stone Sales Page on Facebook. Not even three hours later, I got a PM from a hobbyist in New Zealand who had him for sale, and the rest is history.
His best show outing was just this past October at Steel City Live, where he won his class in both breed and collectibility and also section champed in collectibility. His show name is Zealand.
On the evening of August 29, 2022, I posted an “In Search Of” ad for him on the Peter Stone Sales Page on Facebook. Not even three hours later, I got a PM from a hobbyist in New Zealand who had him for sale, and the rest is history.
His best show outing was just this past October at Steel City Live, where he won his class in both breed and collectibility and also section champed in collectibility. His show name is Zealand.
I think this guy is one of the prettiest Stone Thoroughbreds they’ve ever made. He is the non-customized version of Prince William, a run of 5 from Equilocity 2019. I bought him in September 2024 after I damn near drooled all over my phone screen upon seeing his ad on Facebook. His show name is Teenage Heartthrob and he has absolutely kicked ass in the show ring since I got him, with four NAN cards to his name already.
There are 22 Stone Thoroughbreds on my wish list. All but one (a rare buckskin) are bay, black, dapple gray, or some shade of flaxen chestnut. (I have a type, okay?) My biggest wish is a glossy bay with an ocean wave tail, like Cherish the Moment.
There are 22 Stone Thoroughbreds on my wish list. All but one (a rare buckskin) are bay, black, dapple gray, or some shade of flaxen chestnut. (I have a type, okay?) My biggest wish is a glossy bay with an ocean wave tail, like Cherish the Moment.
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