NAN Qualifiers!

At Laughing Bear Live, I qualified seven horses for the North American Championships (commonly called NAN). To qualify, you must win a first or a second place ribbon in a show that has been approved by NAMHSA, the governing organization of the model horse show world. (NAMHSA stands for North American Model Horse Shows Association.)

When NAMHSA was first organized, I attended the first NAN and the third. (I don't remember if I went to any others.) And, I won Top Ten accolades with several of my models, too, at each one. The competition is incredibly fierce with the best from the continent present, so it's a very big deal to be able to say you have a piece in your collection that is Top Ten for the USA, Canada, and Mexico!

But then I went back to school, started teaching, was putting children through college, having weddings and grandchildren born... I just have not had much time to show for the last decade or so, although I have kept up with the hobby by reading various publications and actively collecting.

Attending Laughing Bear rekindled my desire to campaign a few pieces, and I have a good start with these models that will be attending NAN 2014 in Lexington, Kentucky!

 Cee Hunt, a portrait model of my former real horse, Cee Hunt.

2nd Place - Resin Solid Colored Stock Foals

(Okie Rio resin sculpted by Carol Williams and painted by Janis Whitcomb)

 Vader

2nd Place - China Other Breeds

(Cheval Friesian)

Harry Potter

1st Place - China Other Breeds

(Hagen Renaker Harry Donkey Foal)

Dartagnan

2nd Place - China Spanish Breeds

(North Light Lippizaner)

Ring the Bells

1st Place - OF Breyer Gaited Ponies

Reserve OF Breyer Pony Champion

(Breyer Hackney Pony Aristotle)

 Dolly

2nd Place - OF Breyer Draft Mules

(Breyer 1999 SR Mule Dolly)

 Lazy River

2nd Place - OF Breyer Missouri Fox Trotter

(Breyer  SR 2006 BreyerFest Special Pierrot)