Bonfire Bonanza Live Show - Part 1

Sorry about the lack of posts recently. Please let us know if there is anything you would like to see on the blog.


Meanwhile enjoy some pictures from the Bonfire Bonanza Live Show at the beginning of November. The show was held over two days, and here are some pictures from the Performance sections. All photos courtesy of Sarah Hindmarsh.

This lovely Ballycor owned by Heather Irvine won the English Show Championship

The Reserve English Performance Champion, a really neat Hackney set-up owned by Jane Varin

Jan Hagues well known Julip police horse set-up won the Scene Championship

This lovely Julip horse won the Novice western class - all the tack and clothing were made by Jan

Sue Thompson's fantastic and original gypsy trotter set-up, which won the English Performance Championship and went onto win the Supreme Performance Championship

All American Live Show

Marion Randles hosted the All American Live show in Macclesfield back in late October. Sounds like the show was a great success, as the hobby becomes more popular the specialist shows are pointing the way forward. Wendy Goodson sent in some photos of some of the Champion line-ups and of her own overall Supreme Champion, Winter Gold.

BECF Photo Show Series Top 20

As the photo show series progresses the top 20 will be published after each round. All the points have been tallied, and this top 20 is based on the total points across all 3 shows. At the end of the season the finalists will receive some lovely prizes. Other categories will also get prizes too, including for example Top Performance model, Top Pony, Top Resin to name but a few.

1st Joliet Jake C Gregory

2nd Winter Flame W Goodson

3rd Cody W Goodson

4th Risky Business D Hulse

5th Silver Dream W Goodson

6th Collection of Dreams W Goodson

7th Gunpowder R Marriott

8th Silver Harmony W Goodson

9th Shepherd Moon C Gregory

10th Treasure W Goodson

11th Bits & Pieces W Goodson

12th Champagne Kisses L Islip

13th Silver Mist W Goodson

14th Barely There C Gregory

15th Must Be Magic W Goodson

16th Nothin But Trouble A White

17th PR Whispering Breeze D Hulse

18th Patawatomi I Dotti

19th Avalon Little Boy Blue H Birtles

20th Midnight Lace W Goodson

In total 677 models have been entered into the show series, so if you are in the top 20 give yourself a pat on the back. But there are still 4 rounds left so all is to play for, get your cameras out and start snapping!

Happy showing!

Hobby Day Update!

Added to our original schedule, we are pleased to announce that Jan Hagues will be doing a tack-making demo. Some of you will remember her amazing detailed tack on Julip models that always does fantastically well at shows.

Please use the form on the website to book your places before they all go!

BECF Photo Series - Part 2

The results from the 2nd round of the Artist Finish and Factory Finish BECF shows are ready. Here are the Supreme Line-ups:

To the left is the AF Supreme Champion Abigail S owned by Ilaria Dotti of Italy. Ilaria proxy shows her photos - if you don't live in the UK but would like to enter the BECF shows, please get in touch as proxy showers can be arranged.





To the right is the AF Reserve Supreme Champion Gardhar who is also owned by Ilaria. Well done to you!








The Reserve to Reserve Supreme title went to Cody owned by Wendy Goodson:


In the Factory Finish show, Supreme Champion went to Denra Hulse's Risky Business:




The Reserve Supreme Champion was Winter Flame owned by Wendy Goodson.





And last but not least is Gun Powder owned by Rebecca Marriott who took the Reserve to Reserve Supreme in the Factory Finish Show.


Well done to all our winners!


Stay tuned for the results of the Performance Show, and start thinking about your entries for the next round of shows in mid-October.

BECF Hobby Day

The BECF would like to invite you to the second Hobby Day. It will take place on the 17th of October and promises to be a day of fun, learning, and appreciation for all model horse hobbyists, old and new! There will also be an award for the best British artist and a sneak-peek at the new Judge's Handbook, as well as vendors' stalls, bring-and-buy tables and displays. There are talks, demos and workshops to suit all interests as well as a chance to meet fellow enthusiasts and exchange ideas

http://hobbyday2.notlong.com

If you would like an artists' or vendors' stand for the day please get in touch via the BECF website's 'contact us' page.

Didmarton Live Show Report

This report is a little late, but its such a good one you'll all enjoy it. It was written by Ann Sheppard the day after the Didmarton OF & CM Live on the 13th of June. Apologies to those who may have read it elsewhere, and many thanks to Ann for allowing us to publish her report.

"I have not written a show report for ages, but after having run a long model horse hurdle race recently and having finally run out of puff and hit one that I could not get over, yesterdays show was like a handsome semi-clad man rushing up with an oxygen mask!

Anyway onto the report....

Kelly was the first to arrive at my house and what a greeting I gave her, blurry eyes, no make-up and to complete the look a head full of heated rollers, fortunately her camera was in the car. Next was the Indiana Jones of the breakfast world, Beccy; unfortunately I forgot to tell her that the road was closed from my house to McDonalds, but she fought her way through the misleading diversion signs and battled the local B roads and traffic to arrive the hero with a still hot breakfast for us.

After numerous trips back into the house, for the loo, forgotten driving glasses, and two trips to the laptop to get the postcode (don't ask!) we eventually boarded the bus (my beaten up old people carrier) and set off.

After all the adventures we started off a little late, but the good old bus got us there in time, much to Yvette's relief, as I had the placing certificates and Bex had the MECS qualifying tickets.

Yvette put on a really impressive list of performance classes, all had entries, though it was a shame there was not a few more in some of the classes. One class looked as though it was not getting an entry, but due to a mistake on my part, it gave me the inspiration to hastily put an entry together. Bought a rider off Bex and a bit of creative writing got the Reserve Performance Champ! To the people that read the card - the answer to the mystery of the missing girl was that clever devil here had left her at home (lol!).

Ann's Reserve Supreme Performance Championship winning entry, Doc's Painted Dragon and Indian Pony:

There were some great performance entries and Yvonne's champ was stunning. Here is Fidel owned by Yvonne Dunn who took the Supreme Performance Championship:

And here is Ringwraith who won the Reserve to Reserve Supreme Performance Championship, also owned by Yvonne Dunn:

The classes were for plastic OFs and CMs only. I judged a load of the OF classes and some of them were massive. It was lovely to see such well-supported classes with such great models, judging was a pleasure. Next year, might get around to holding an OF Plastic only show, as I definitely think their is support out there for it.

Both Animal Artistry and Horsing Around were there with some nice goodies to help you part with some of your money.

The raffle had some lovely prizes, none of which I took home unfortunately.

Deb Davies sponsored some of the rosettes, they were beautiful. Nicki Collin's Supreme Champion was a really nice piece. Here is Dilly Knox:

The Reserve Supreme Champion was won by Spotless Charm who is also owned by Nicki Collins:

And Reserve to Reserve Supreme was Sham's Star owned by Anne White:

Yvette organised a great show, but it was more than that, the people just really made it an amazing day. LONG LIVE LIVE SHOWING!"