Mark your calendars for BreyerFest British Invasion, Breyer Animal Creation’s 23rd annual festival for horse lovers this July 20-22, 2012 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. In honor of the London Olympics, this fun, family-friendly festival will celebrate everything we love about horses and Britain!
From Will and Kate to the 2012 London Olympics; tea, tweed and Tatler; the Beatles and the Rolling Stones; Harry Potter and everything in between, BreyerFest British Invasion will be a fun frolic for all ages!
BreyerFest draws more than 7,000 horse lovers each year to Lexington for the three-day festival. A limited edition collectible Breyer model is included in the ticket price with every model.
Activities on-site include Shakespeare, dog agility, exciting live horse demonstrations, a Trade Fair and Breyer Store, a pop-up Bit of British store, a Craft and Activity Center with free crafts and face painting, contests, model horse displays and shows, meet and greets with our special equine guests, workshops and seminars. On Saturday evening, a Beatles Tribute band will rock the Alltech Arena!
This year, BreyerFest will feature favorite British breeds such as Dales and Fell Ponies, Hackneys, Cleveland Bays, Shires, and Gypsy Vanners! Special equine guests include some of the real horses that inspired the models! See the amazing transformation of Padré, once a wild mustang, into a halter horse capable of showing at Dressage at Devon! And watch the high-stepping American Saddlebred, CH Sprinkles, and 13-year-old Eleanor Rainbolt-Forbes who has taken the show world by storm.
The BreyerFest British Invasion Celebration Horse is Moonlit Acres’ Mariah's Boon, an American Drum Horse. Each three-day ticket holder will receive a portrait model of Celebration Horse Mariah’s Boon. Boon will recreate the pomp and pageantry of the Queen’s Household Cavalry while Villa Vanner’s Taskin, demonstrates the magic of the Gypsy Vanner horse.
Audiences will also get a chance to see potential future Olympians because the FEI No. American Young Riders Championships will be hosted at the Horse Park during the same weekend. Watch top young riders aged 16-21 years from three countries competing in the Olympic disciplines to determine who the North American Champions will be in show jumping, three-day eventing and dressage!
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at http://www.BreyerHorses.com
About Breyer Animal Creations®
Breyer Animal Creations is a division of Reeves International (www.reevesintl.com), a family-owned, NJ-based toy manufacturer and distributor. Breyer, founded in 1950, celebrates the horse and other animals, dedicating itself to the creation of authentic and realistic model horses for play and collecting.
Breyer is one of America’s iconic toys and its ‘portrait’ models of horse heroes and animals like Secretariat, Black Beauty, The Black Stallion and Lassie have inspired children of all ages to love animals. Breyer’s partnerships with publishers like Scholastic and Macmillan’s Children’s Publishing and studios like Universal (Seabiscuit); DreamWorks (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and Dreamer), and Touchstone Pictures (Hidalgo) have provided a platform to create new content and play forms for children inspiring a world of imagination and creativity. .