 So it is Thursday July 15th and this is not the first day of BriarFest but the day preceding BriarFest and this is my large sale release day. Unfortunately I had to go get a prescription this morning because I woke up with an infection. Had to happen last night so I consulted with an online doctor so that I didn't have to go to a doctor today and I got the drugs that I needed so we're good. We're going to into BriarFest medicated. It's very exciting to finally be a part of BriarFest this year. So we're here. It's almost four and I've made popcorn getting ready for Kylie's sale. My sale has been going really well. The orders have slowly been trickling in and now I officially have enough money in my PayPal to go to Kylie's sale so it all kind of worked out how I planned it. So I'm going to load the link and then we're going to watch the film. I genuinely couldn't decide so I got both. I'm going to see what special runs they have gifted me because you're supposed to pick your selections and it's quite random on what you'll actually get so this is the moment of truth y'all. Oh hey! I thought so. They can't do that to me. I'm DJB. So this is another example of how a test color will go into a production model. I did get the results for the open show. So Jasper got first which is pretty crazy in a big class. Delilah also got first which is so funny because this is my friend's favorite horse. The quarter horse class like regularly run quarter horse marines. I don't even know how many people entered that too many. It's a big class to win. So I'm impressed by that and Kamikaze also got a first which is super awesome. I love him and my big boy Yorg got first which is awesome. So that's pretty exciting because those are pretty intense classes. Some of my other customs placed as well but nothing super high. Basilisk got third. It was very competitive so like to be expected Dante got four. I'm pretty happy with that so we'll see how the champions go because I do have a couple first and second. The third champ is Gulliver owned by Gretchen G. And our champ is also owned by Gretchen G. This is Shinrin Yoku. Our reserve overall champ It is your reserve owned by Darren G. Oh my gosh. And our champ is Shinrin Yoku. Oh my gosh. She is absolutely amazing. What? My heart is beating so fast. With our regular run traditional reserve at buddy collector's classes. Okay that just made my weekend. So Jasper got a champion Delilah reserved and Yorg championed and got overall reserve champion and that was the other special run model that I was gonna like try and find. So I am like stoked. Day two. I didn't film any of it. I didn't really do any of it. I live streamed with Vincent Erika Harriet and that was it. And then I played it in the background while I cleaned the house. I used the undone version. Yeah. There were two different versions of him. He was really nice. His color was perfect and he did actually do well in the show ring for me too in the photo shows but I couldn't get over the front hoop. Yeah. I can't handle that front hoop. Maybe not the best to have a weak vacation right after bryor fast literally we have to leave tomorrow. That's it was pretty interesting. I like that they went into like the archive shelves and then they showed all that stuff. I thought that was a really cool. I could watch that for another two hours. Day three. Hi. Yay. I don't know what this is. Creative. Just go to bryorhorses.com slash Piper. 2021. We hold and we mold. That was concerning. We're waiting for the live auction to start in three minutes. Everything is also packed. It's not even if you turn the volume down it's less loud. It's just loud. I know it's why put headphones on and I could still hear it at max volume of music. I'll live but it's just so distracting. You can't get anything done. Intrigued by all of the horses. Could you give 7000? Could you go 7000? Come on folks. Don't hesitate. Participate. 6500 bits. 7000 bits. 7000. 7000 folks. This is lot number one. We're starting off with. So much. Some people make it a year. Oh my god. Stop. You could have a rainbow zebra horse. Excuse me Mr. 903 or Mrs. 903. You raised the price for yourself. There was a time limit on that. Financial advisor. I advise you to not invest in bryors. Come on get back in there. It's only money. It's only money. 10 grand. 10 grand. Look if you can afford to buy a bryor for $5,000 or $9,000 you have enough to join DJB's sticker club. It's the tenacity to say that. I know. I didn't realize this was charity though. I always thought they just like made a ton of money. This one's going hag hog crazy. This damn rainbow horse is at 9500. Who's gonna do it? Who's gonna do triple quadruple and triple digits? It's not real gold. It's just dancing. This is the day you want to own bryor. It's at 11 already. Starting at 11. This is the Ackle Techay. It's at 12. 10,000 bit 11,000. 13. It's not that pretty. It's an Ackle. 15,000. It's at 16. That is $2,000, $8,000 horses. $17,000. I literally got goosebumps. I'm not kidding. You see that? Bitter 912 is the one that was pushing it out. It's only money. It's only money. There's no point in dying a rich woman. You just spend your money while you're alive. Sold for $17,000. I have gloss spray. I can do that. Give me a model. I'll make it glossy. Oh my god. Here we go. $16,000. It's $16,000. It's $16,000. All in, all done. Last call. $16,000. It's $17,000. Come on. Get back in there. You're gonna recline it tomorrow morning, if you don't. It's $17,000. It's $17,000. $16,000. $17,000 going once. $17,000 at $18,000. $17,000 at $18,000. $17,000 going once. $17,000 at $18,000 going twice. Last call. And we sold it. $17,000. Oh my god. How does that make you feel? That was exciting. That was wonderful. House. That was awesome. Glossy Hamilton. Single briar. Oh my god. Jamie who was going to take over in the next one. Oh my god. And now it's the surprise person. Everybody's trying to like calculate what is in the bag. What could it be? It's a long boy. It's really wonderful. And again, thanks for all of our guys. Save us for like stress. I would bet on this. I want to thank everybody. Again, never mind. Not for that much. Don't hesitate. Participate. You know, all these different things. So we're, we're trying to figure it out because this is the only one I'm showing. I'm not telling you how many there are. The winning bidder isn't worth it. What does that mean? Until it actually gets to there. Absolutely. Absolutely. $17,000 at $18,000 going once. $17,000 at $18,000 going twice. Holy smokes. Tammy, yeah. Your first runner up. Oh my god. Is Heather B? I can film with you. Second runner up is Karen Z, with the Quetzal. That is amazing. Absolutely insane. Our next category. Oh, we'll cover that later. Our next category is the most extreme. So completely working of a model. Our first place winner is Nickel K. Our first runner up is Darren B. I ended like an hour ago and now we're in a car leaving town. So that's how hectic it was. I didn't really get to say what happened. But essentially Denali got second place in the Best Customs contest, which I knew at the beginning of the month. And it kind of sucked because they told you you're placing in the email, which was very confusing because they've never done that before. And so I was kind of panicking. And then Vincent was also panicking and we were texting each other because they kind of inputted that rule into the guidelines after we had entered the contest. Because normally, normally it would be like more exciting because you would see the results and it would be live, like the live photo show results. My heart was like racing the whole time because I had no idea. And I feel like that adds to the Briarfest experience. So I don't know why. Yeah, they just spoiled that. Like there was no exciting moment. No. It was just kind of like, oh cool, my picture's on the screen at the very end of the thing. But like my reaction wasn't over the top because I've already, I already knew. I've known for a long time and you weren't allowed to share anything publicly. So that was also in the rules, which really sucks. Because there was a lot of hype about if you were a finalist you could post and then everybody would be cheering you on and what placing you get is a surprise. So I don't know. I think it's a legal thing that they want you to sign the document so that they can send the models right away. I don't know. The title of the email too. So it said potential second place winner. And it kept saying potential, which is even more confusing because it's like well does that mean I am second or like they're just saying everybody's second or what? So it was confusing. I messaged a couple people and we had kind of an inner chat going. But there was people asking me like did you get an email and I'm like well I can't say yes or no and it sounds suspicious if I say I can't say. In the contract it said you couldn't say and you couldn't talk about it. Yeah. Which is like so so crazy. Anyways I am very thrilled with that result and I was very excited when I got that email although it was also semi-confused but it has been like sinking in and I've known that news for a while so it's not like new news to me and seeing it on the screen didn't really, I don't know, didn't really change that because I already knew it. But I would say all in all 10 out of 10 very good first briar fest experience. I hope that in the next year or two we can actually go in person because I think that would be so cool and honestly BC is about as hot as Kentucky right now so if I'm surviving this I think we can survive Briar Fest. That's 91 degrees Fahrenheit right here. So yeah or the auction was like crazy to watch that was probably one of my favorite part because it was so ridiculous. Yeah that was stupid numbers. Talk about it for a second and you want to be humble so you can't but Jorg actually came in first. He came in first as champion of his class and then reserve champion overall for all of the customs right the customs category. That is something you have been talking to me about since you started this hobby and you were like I need to be and you learned like naming all the people that you just be. That's real, that happened. That's crazy Darren. Plus Denali came as reserve champion in second place. That is also amazing. This is against all the best modelers in the world. The competitive person in me is like excited but I'm also like I gotta do better next time. I gotta get first. Technically speaking I have only gotten second place in most things. Like Tammy has beaten me in every single model for a show. Tell that to your boxes of first place ribbons. Well I've got lots of firsts but not like overall firsts. I haven't actually won overall of a live show yet. So like even you are a key one reserve. He still beat a lot of really awesome artists but it's still second place. So I'm not quite there. I still have room to go somewhere so it's not over yet guys. Well that's motivating isn't it? I'm very excited for Tammy though. She actually won. She is insane but she can not beat me. And the fantasy people that won if you placed in that category you should be like screaming because that category was so competitive. I couldn't choose a favorite out of all of those. I genuinely couldn't have judged it and they had some in there that I was surprised weren't in there because they were so good. So to like choose three out of those category out of that category is a feat in itself. Congratulations to all the artists in general. Your work was amazing. And now we're going to go on vacation and not think about briars for a week. Oh it's going to be so nice. Not because they're not thinking about briars but because we're not doing work. Well my briars are my work so I'm not going to think about briars for a week. So thank you to everybody who bought my sales as well. It went really well. We're getting married next year so we need money for the wedding. Well yeah we may not be able to come to Briar Fest because we'll be getting married so we'll see. Yeah maybe it can be our honeymoon. We'll see. Well we'll go to like. Thanks for watching. Happy customizing. And happy Briar Fest 2021. What was the slogan of this year's festival? It's just money.