1000 Horses!

That's right! Golden Hart Estates is now 1000 horses strong. This number includes ALL horse identities on my website, BSOs, pedigreed horses, and pictured horses lacking pedigrees. Essentially, it is a count of all the named horses I own. This number does not include the orphans that are sitting in my computer waiting for names and identities, and I'm not even going to venture to guess how many there are.

More than half of that number are Grand Champions, the brand of my youth. I had a herd of maybe 30 of them when I was young, but once I grew up and graduated high school, I could purchase them myself and my herd expanded. My desire to own all of the GCs released has driven many purchases, including importing them from Germany, the UK, and Australia!

My very first horse on the website was Ealoshar, my black Stone Egyptian Arabian. He was at the very top of the list at the side of my site for a long time, before I eventually moved the Crabbet Arabians ahead of the Egyptians for alphabetical reasons.

The 1000th one was Scottsdale Blue, the Breyer Arabian resin I picked up at the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show and named for the event. She is on the site as a Polish Arabian mare.

Scottsdale Blue

Considering Arabians are my favorite breed, it is surely fitting that it would start and "end" with them. However, I have many more orphans to ID, and many more models to buy!

It's been a long, exciting and sometimes frustrating trip, but I'm glad we made it to such a huge landmark, and I'm looking forward to the next 1000!

Birthday Presents

June 13th was my birthday. And that means presents! Luckily my boyfriend is very supportive of my hobby, and he knows when it comes time to buy me anything, its not jewelry, or clothes, or chocolate or flowers--it's horses! :D

This time since we've just recently moved and still trying to find jobs, we didn't spend too much, but I'm hoping this Christmas will be awesome.

The Dollhouse I frequent had several that I wanted about equally--the Trad WarHorse, the classic version, Sato, the gray Irish Draught, Samira, and the classic mare/foal sets. So I made Shawn pick, and he chose the flashiest one there--Sato! Then there were two versions. A light one, which looked typical to the photos I'd seen online, and then a much chocolately, darker one. Can you guess which ones I brought home? :D

Also picked up the Appy mare/foal set since I've been on a part-Arab kick lately, and they'll make great AraAppaloosas.

Lastly, but not least, I snagged the other Stablemate set. Pretty sure this one is called Show Stoppers. That bay foal is too cute!

Red roan--not sure which breed to make her.

Both of the adults are mares. Not sure how you get so many foals running around without a stallion, tho!

This one will become a TWH. I don't have many of them!

Probably be a colt of the roan mare above.

My fav. of the bunch! He's asking for TB but I'm not sure....I'll find something good for him :)

Suggestions? (And not Paint! :P)

Well there ya have it! My sister also bought me the Year of the Dragon Breyer Esprit, which is currently in my cubicle at work.

More updates next weekend, because hopefully my international packages will arrive this week!

How's The Weather?

Living in Wyoming, the chances of finding even one of the Treasure Hunts was slim. I found two of the draft season THs the year before, but little did I know that I wouldn't see a lick of the Weather Girls in person until almost a year later.

That time was yesterday. A big box arrived after an anxious week-long wait.

I wasn't going to be greedy. I wanted the main three, and the special Rainbow could wait til later, or never. I'm glad I found this lot, because when I pulled her out, I realized just how entranced I was by her.

She's going to be my special project. A 99% Arabian blood AraApaloosa x Pintabian cross. I have the Pintabians to do it. Now I just need to breed a high percentage AraAppaloosa. Not sure what I want to name her, but I'd like to make it a play on lucky number four, charmed four, and/or rainbow, her original name.

The next was a major disappointment.

Not only did it damage my most favorite of the four, but its on her good side, and she's super tipsy and can't stand on her own on a flat surface.

I don't know HOW the flat side of a box does so much damage.

 She's not live show quality, that's for sure. And she's not even photo show quality from this side.

But at least with a little touch up she can look minty fresh for my stable pages! (Kudos to Samantha Kroese for the magic photoshopping!).



I was pleasantly surprised how much I adore the palomino. Her color is sooooo much better in person than Breyer made it seem in their photos. She is practically my new favorite. She will likely become a 15/16 Arabian blood palomino Quarab.

On the other hand, my camera loved Partly Cloudy. It would focus on her in a heartbeat, while the others took a noticeable second. She has some gorgeous dappling. She is going to become a member of my Pintabian herd!

My third big goal for my stable this year: get the Weather Girls. Check.

Looking Forward to June!

Lots of good horsey things this month.

The Belmont Stakes. Will we have a Triple Crown winner, finally? One of my biggest wishes is to see a Triple Crown winner run in my lifetime.

My birthday. I already know my sister bought me a horse or two. One has been sitting, wrapped, in my bedroom for a month. I've been ultra-good and not even touched it. Go me!

Incoming horses. Sometime this next week, my four Weather Girls will arrive. For those of you who frequent my stable website, you know that owning the three girls was on my top goals for the year. Well now, not only did I achieve my goal, I got all FOUR of them, not just the main three! I was also bad and splurged on eBay to get the Akhal-Teke model I've had a bso for forever. I'm super excited for him, too.

Now, I'm not planning to make ANY more horse purchases this month unless it's a once-in-a-lifetime chance. No more hunting through eBay. I MUST save money to get a place!