This Running Mare with Foal Weather Vane, Equus caballus, was commissioned by a customer who had seen our original Standing Mare and Foal Weather Vane but wanted a more active design. Hers is an all copper version, though it is available with optional gold-leafed or palladium accents that can make this sculpture piece represent a specific horse.

Also pictured above is this Running Mare and Foal Weathervane fabricated in brass. Brass is more expensive than copper and more laborious to work. Please call for a quote.

This weathervane is an example of a non-mirror-image design. More typically, a weather vane is exactly the same on both sides, but to convey a sense of action, it works better if crafted with distinctly different sides. While more dynamic, this style of weathervane requires greater skill to construct. Our customer in Kentucky who installed this weathervane on top of her 50 foot diameter riding arena chose our large size (3-ft) version of the Running Mare with Foal.

This particular weathervane can be individualized in several different ways. We can make a weather vane for you with just the running mare or just the running foal instead of the pair. If you order just the mare herself in any given size, the horse is actually larger than it would be in the combined mare and foal weathervane version. This is because we need to reduce the size of each individual sculpture piece in order to fit two horses onto the same arrow. If you are on the borderline between two sizes of weathervane (for example, a two-foot sculpture piece or a three-foot sculpture piece), and you like the combination version the best, it may be better to go with the larger of the two sizes. And there is a choice of colors for the glass eyes that will allow a bit of light through.

The Thoroughbred as it is known today was developed in 17th- and 18th-century England, when native mares were crossbred with imported Oriental stallions of Arabian, Barb, and Turkoman breeding. All modern Thoroughbreds can trace their pedigrees to three stallions originally imported into England in the 17th century and 18th century, and to a larger number of foundation mares of mostly English breeding.

Mare and Foal Gallery

Horse Weathervane – Quarter Horse – Mare and Foal Running	Horse Weathervane – Quarter Horse Mare with Foal Standing Design
Horse Weathervane – Thoroughbred Mare & Foal Running	Horse Weathervane – Thoroughbred Mare & Foal Standing
Horse Weathervane Arabian / Egyptian – Mare and Foal Running	Horse Weathervane Arabian/Egyptian Mare and Foal Trotting Design

Thoroughbred Gallery

Jumping Horse Weathervane	Running Stallion Weathervane	Running Mare & Foal Weathervane	Polo Horse Weathervane V1
Standing Mare & Foal Weathervane	Racehorse Weathervane Exclusive Design	Steeplechase Horse Weathervane	Polo Pony with Rider Weathervane, V2
	Racehorse v2 Weathervane	Racehorse v1 Weathervane