• Colic - the gastrointestinal result of gulping down food at a show while trying to check out and buy sale models.
• Hobbles - the particular walking gait from the effect of standing on cement floros all day at the model horse show.
• Hock - the financial situation every model horse collector is in.
• Mustangs - a breed that goes vroom, vroom, and you drive to the show with your models in the back seat. My favorite is a black V8 convertible.
• Overreaching - a term for figuring out how to pay for all those models as your credit card tilts.
• Quittors - sometimes put to those people who:
  1. get mad at the judge and pull their models before the end of the show.
  2. come to theith senses before they buy the $2000 model.
  3. come to their senses at the auction before the last bid has been given.
• Sleeping Sickness - cause from the lack of sleep over a model horse show. There is the Friday night packing blitz that lasts till 2 am. Have to be on the road at 5 to get to the show hall by 8. Afraid to sleep as you might not hear the alarm. Drive 3 hours, get to hall, set up, show, visit, and decide to spend night at motel. Friends come in and visit; 4 am everyone leaves for a few hours to sleep. Too excited to sleep, talk with roommate til 6. Sleep til 7, get to hall at 8:30 and show, visit, buy, and drive home and sleep for 24 hours.
• Twisted Gut - the feeling in the pit of the stomach as your horse is up for Gran Champion. That burger you ate at noon is in a knot and is the judge going to your horse?

I want to thank Horse Illustrated for the above article idea. You might have seen something similar in their magazine.

Model Horse World Definitions:

• TO GOOD HOME ONLY: Not really for sale unless you can
1. pay three times the going rate for that model
2. the current owner can still photo show the model
3. the current owner can still see the model every month
4. model can't be sold again without permission from current owner
• NEVER REMOVED FROM BOX:
1. Off side legs are bent completely sideways from bands in box
2. Off side paint has been rubbed off the horse
• BEAUTIFUL COLOR SHADED NICELY:
• Actually means that a child has gotten the model and his markers and colored the horse
• BARGAIN-PRICE REDUCED!
1. Someone else found something wring with the model the current owner didn't know about
2. model was damaged in bginring it to the show
• WAS NEVER GOING TO SELL, BUT
• Current owner just found a more expensive model to buy and needs more money for this poor beaten up model
• NEVER SHOWN
• Model was too ugly to show in the show ring
• GRAND CHAMPION
• Horse won the Grand and the Reserve Grand in a division in which he was the only horse showing

1. Your just-purchased, gorgeously shaded limited edition-to-only-500-pieces model will have multiple box/leg iron rubs, while that boring, common-as-grass model will come out of the box perfect as can be.
2. You have a model on your showstring for eons that rarely did better than third (maybe a few first and secons in two horse classes), you finally sell it for about $10, and it wins North American Nationals Breed Champion for its new own!
3. Nine out of ten people lucky enough to have several older 1960s decorators aren't collectors (they got them from their grandma, great aunt, etc.), and have no idea what they have.
4. You visit/comb/tear apart your local flea market EVERY WEEKEND for at least five years running. The ONE WEEKEND you decide not to go is the one when the vendor with eight Decorators, five Woodgrains, and multiple other rairities, all for $1.00 apiece, sets up shop. That is also the weekend all your model collector friends finally decided to go to THAT particular flea market.
5. The tack store's last Peter Stone Dreamfinder was bought for a screaming two-year-old...who's now out in the parking lot smashing him on the asphalt.

Found on a discussion board on the Internet by a club member.

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