Bonnie J. Robb | P.O. Box 582 | La Canada, CA 91012
bonnie@arthorse.com

PRIVATE AUCTION
Carol Williams QHS-1
"Don Coyote"

   This is not a thing I thought I would ever do; tough circumstances have come, and gone...I've thought about it, and held off. But the time has come. My beloved real horse, my best buddy, is injured, lame, and the vets are still stumped as to what is wrong. Insurance is paying for some but not all of the diagnostics, and we haven't even gotten to treatment yet. I would do almost anything for my horse buddy to be sound and rideable again, so I am willingly sacrificing here to offset the vet bills. In that light, its not so hard after all.

Don Coyote is my Carol Williams/Rio Rondo resin QHS-1. I purchased him in 1990 directly from Carol way back when the run was released. I asked for a primitive color of some sort, and Carol surpassed my hope and vision. He is a dove brown grulla, so subtle and simple until you take a closer look. He is barred and striped in every way a primitive horse can be. His color has so many layers and so much depth - depth that Carol is so famous for capturing with her painstaking oil techniques - to this day, after all these years, I still take him out on a sunny spring day and just look at him. Seems I discover something new every time.

The resin itself doesn't really need much of an introduction. I guess the QHS-1 can be considered the "forerunner" of the current resin revolution. The resin was released in a run of 200, all originally painted by Carol - what a labor of love that was! Don Coyote is number 138 in the run. The QHS-1 remains one of the standards of excellence in resincasting - a sculpture timelessly correct and lifelike, sought after not only as a rare collector's item but as a piece that continues to stampede over the competition in showing.

Don Coyote has been a tremendous part of my hobby life. Probably my first "major" purchase in the hobby, as I was just finishing college and heading into the world. I have always loved showing him - I show him still, when I do show, which is rarely now. By 2001 I had sort of retired him. I brought him "back out" when NAN started becoming the big thing, and he has almost always qualified at every show we attend. In 2002 I had the opportunity to enter and show him at the North American Nationals in California, where he was awarded Reserve Champion Quarter Horse. That is such a fantastic memory for me. At the last show I attended, Las Vegas Live 2004, he qualified again. His is a timeless quality.

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