Big Lex - PRE-ORDER

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. Your item will ship May 2025.

Lexington, Kentucky, the "Horse Capital of the World" and home of BreyerFest, celebrates its 250th year in 2025. This beautiful city in the heart of Bluegrass Country surrounds itself in everything horse! One of the images you will see throughout the city is "Big Lex" – a blue-tinted adaptation of an oil painting by Edward Troye of the real-life Thoroughbred stallion, Lexington, that has become a symbol of the city. Legend has it that "Big Lex" turned blue from grazing the nourishing bluegrass his entire life!

The real Lexington was foaled in 1850 near present-day Lexington, and would become one of the fastest and most durable runners of his time. You can still pay homage to Lexington today –  his skeleton is on display at the Kentucky Horse Park's International Museum of the Horse, on permanent loan from the Smithsonian Institution.

Traditional | 1:9 scale | Ages 8+

Why we love this model

Big Lex is such a cool decorator model. He is a portrait of a portrait (which is quite fun in and of itself) and has a beautiful blue tint to his colour. I do love a really subtle decorator and this guy is just that, he is something a bit different, not over the top, not stand out is, just a really nice model. A great addition to your decorator collection.

Packaging Information

This model comes in their original Breyer packaging. We will protect the box with bubble wrap and then ship in a cardboard box with padding. They will be well protected on his journey to you but if you do have any issues please just drop us an email at: catriona@chestnutridge.co.uk

You can find a breakdown of our shipping costs here:https://www.chestnutridge.co.uk/shipping--returns.html#/

If you need to return your item you are more than welcome to do so. Please just email us at catriona@chestnutridge.co.uk

Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs.

Want zero waste shipping?

Plastic free shipping is available on all our items. Please just add into your order notes that you would like plastic free shipping*. Items will be shipped with eco-friendly bubble wrap, paper, starch packing peanuts, cardboard boxes and plastic free tape.

Orders will not include thank you slip or advertising slip. They will still include your free gift. They will not have a sticker on the outside of the box.

*Breyer, Safari & Mojo packaging is not plastic free

All orders have a small amount of non-zero waste items. These are: return address label & shipping label.

We will be adding a plastic free return label when our current supply runs out!