Breyer Horse Item #9103

Classics Three-Horse Set
2010 World Equestrian Games

Description: This beautifully detailed Classics Three-Horse set represents the three original international championship disciplines of jumping, eventing and dressage. This commemorative World Equestrian Games model horse gift set is ideal for junior collectors.

Jumpers must be powerful enough to soar over huge fences, obedient enough to shorten or lengthen their strides to arrive at an optimum take-off point, agile-enough to execute sharp turns and fast to shave time, especially in the jump-off. This sleek grey Thoroughbred gleding epitomizes the qualities of a World Equestrian Games jumper.

In Dressage, horses must be superbly balanced, supple and powerfully muscled to execute the movements of grand prix dressage which pirouettes in place at the canter, the extremely collected trot movements of piaffe and passage, and the bold extensions at the trot and canter. This handsome chestnut Hanoverian gelding portrays the qualities of a World Equestrian Games dressage horse.

Event horses perform three phases of equestrian sport. They do a Dressage test, a cross-country phase, and a stadium jumping phase with roots going back to the days when the military relied on cavalry horses and tested them in all three phases. These horses must be supple and obedient enough to perform a Dressage test, bold, fit and fast enough to master a cross country course with solid and imposing obstacles, and then athletic enough to clear a stadium jumping course. With her lean musculature and long stride, this lovely bay Thoroughbred-cross mare represents this exciting World Equestrian discipline.

Since its start in 1990, the World Equestrian Games (WEG) has become the largest and most prestigious global horse competition, rivaling the Olympics in importance to the equestrian world. Breyer joins the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in celebrating the courage, athleticism and beauty of the horse at its pinnacle of achievement and is honored to be the Official Model Horses of the 2010 Games. In these special highly collectible keepsake models, Breyer captures the magnificent spirit, grace and power of these amazing equestrian athletes.

Manufacturer's Suggested Retail: $44.99