PPS Palooza Winter Spectacular

This past weekend, PPS hosted our Palooza Winter Spectacular. We had a great turnout and lots of awesome horses to judge!

Our prizes for the Open section were the Traditional model Foiled Again and an American Royal blanket.

For the Youth section, the prizes were the Traditional 75th Anniversary AQHA Tribute and an NRHA blanket.

PPS mascot, Paloma, even came and hung out at the Judges' table with us.

#squadgoals

Paloma is our first and main mascot, who is currently sold out! You can find out more info on her in our "Meet the Mascots" blog post.

The Open Halter division was won by Anna U. with Knightfire--

--and the Youth Halter division was won by Rachel J. with Camilla!

As for Performance scenes, we had some amazing entries in both divisions. Makenzie R. swept our Open Division Performance with both her incredible unrealistic scene and her Dressage set-up.

And Carleigh R. had some tough competition in the Youth Performance division, but she came away the winner!

Look at all the other awesome Performance set-ups we had this weekend:

I even managed to catch our judges and 4H members enjoying their downtime while the scenes were being set up.

Good job everyone, and congratulations to the winners! We look forward to seeing you all for the Manes & Tails Fundraiser show in March and the Halloween Edition show in October!

Palooza - Halloween

This past weekend was our final 2016 show in a series of three model horse shows.
Palooza Model Horse Shows donate their proceeds after this show to Sally's Fund at UPAWS. This fund is for abused and neglected horses in our area, to help those who take in these horses care for them.

Those attending this falls show had the opportunity to take their horses picture with their ribbons at the new back drop.

Prizes for: Open Halter, Youth Halter, Open Performance, Youth Performance, High Point and the Palooza Triple Crown

Paint Pony Studios on site for sales and a Fun Night!

Bryant's Jake finally arrived for a young entrant!

Poltergeist even attended for a Spooky Decorator Class.

Judges were shadowed by Manes & Tails 4H members, as they will be judging for the 2017 show in January. Mark your calendars for January 21st, 2017!

An amazing fun time for everyone.

Thank you for supporting the Palooza Model Horse Show circuit.

We look forward to seeing you in January.

Illuminatti...Number 6

Illuminatti actually lights up - the Traditional model, unfortunately not the stablemate. This running stallion is adorned with spooky metallic pumpkins and the only Halloween Horse done in gloss.

The Traditional model was the first to light up by pressing a button on the horses barrel. Breyer's other horse to do this was Twilight Terror, that horse came out in 2007.

Phantasma!

PHANTASMA......

Breyer's fifth in the series of Halloween Horses is none other than Phantasma. This 2005 model was on the Smarty Jones mold for the Traditional models and is on an Andalusian stablemate mold.

Metallic red, orange and yellow, with black points, red eyes and grim reapers and ghouls! Isn't he cool?

Halloween Horse.....Cryptic

Cryptic is the fourth Halloween horse released in 2004. The Traditional Cryptic was on the Big Ben mold. He is meant to appear as a stone statue, he has a glow in the dark skeleton underneath. His brand is "RIP" on his hind quarters.

his stablemate version is on the G2 Warmblood mold, and like his Traditional size counterpart he is meant to look like a stone statue. The Halloween stablemate horses came as a set of three. The first set included Skullduggery, Nosferatu, and Merry Widow.

Palooza Model Horse Shows

The Palooza Model Horse Shows are a series of two to three shows per year that fund raise for UPAWS Sally's Fund. Sally's Fund helps horses in our area that are neglected and those who take them in. A portion of our proceeds are given out at the end of each year. We have been organizing this show for the last seven years. Each year the event gets bigger and as we learn and grow we have made changes for the better. We are not a NAN show as the cost prohibits us from being able to donate more, but this does not stop the show from filling up the hall.

We offer our show to both Youth and Adults. Youth ages start at 5 to 13, 14 and over is considered adult. Prize models for both Youth and Adult in Halter and Performance. Both Stone and Breyer models are able to be judged.

The Halloween edition this year is on October 29th, with our "Fun Night" held on Friday evening.
One of the other fun events we hold is the Palooza Triple Crown, the kids love this horse race and the winner of the three races receives a prize as well.

So if you are in our area, head on over to the Palooza Model Horse Show on October 29th. Registration is open until October 19th, email us at paintponystudios.com for a copy of the registration packet. Help support a great cause and have fun showing your model horses, and your love of the hobby.  You can also go to our facebook page for more information.