Boot Camp 2026

WHAT IS DOCUMENTATION

Documentation gives a judge further information about your model.
At live model horse shows, documentation is a small piece of paper placed next to the model that usually includes some text and/or a photo of a real horse.
In online shows such as Boot Camp, we upload photos of real horses or type in text (e.g., information about a breed) to go with the photo of your model.
If you use a photo for Documentation, you must be sure that you have explicit permission to use it or that it is in the public domain.
Judges need to look at every entry and will not be able to read more than 100 words of text, so please do not link to entire webpages, or provide more than one or two reference photos.

RARE BREED DOCUMENTATION

In Breed classes, you will need documentation if your horse is a Rare Breed for this show. In this show, your horse is Rare Breed if it is not on the Common Breeds List.
If your horse is a Rare Breed, then include a *very* short description (100 words or less) in the "References" area of the OMHPS "References" tab of the breed’s most notable conformation features (broad chest, low hip, etc.) and uses (carriage, racing, etc.). Identify your info source (website, author) to increase credibility.
When your OMHPS Premium membership is enabled, you may also upload a photo of a real horse that is the same breed as your model for comparison in the "References Images" area of the OMHPS "References" tab. Identify where the photo came from (photographer, website, book, etc.) in the "References" text field to increase credibility.
If you have a Rare Breed and do not include documentation, your horse will not be disqualified but it may place lower. If your horse is a Common Breed, you do not need any Breed documentation and in fact it would be better if you did not include it, so the judges do not take time to read unnecessary material.

COMMON BREEDS LIST

• Akhal Teke • American Belgian • American Cream • American Drum Horse • American Mustang • American Saddlebred • American Shetland • Andalusian • Appaloosa • Appendix QH • Arabian • Arapinto • Ardennes • Azteca • Bashkir Curly • Belgian (aka Brabant) • Boulonnais • British Shetland • British Spotted Pony • Brumby • Burro • Camargue • Chincoteague • Cleveland Bay • Clydesdale • Colorado Ranger • Connemara • Criollo • Dales • Dartmoor • Donkey • Exmoor • Falabella • Fell • Fjord • Friesian • Galiceno • Gelderlander • German Riding Pony • Hackney Horse • Haflinger • Hanoverian • Highland • Hippocampus • Hippogriff • Holsteiner • Irish Cob • Irish Draft/Draught • Kathiawari • Kiger Mustang • Knabstrup • Lipizzan • Lusitano • Mangalarga • Marwari • Miniature Horse • Missouri Fox Trotter • Morab • Moroccan Barb • Mules (All Types) • National Show Horse • New Forest Pony • Norman Cob • N. American Spotted Draft • Oldenburg • Paint • Paint Pony • Paso Fino • Pegacorn • Pegasus • Percheron • Peruvian Paso • Pintabian • Pony of the Americas • Przewalski/Takhi • Quarab • Quarter Horse • Quarter Pony • Saddlebred • Selle Francais • Shagya Arabian • Shire • Sorraia • Spanish Mustang • Standardbred • Suffolk Punch • Tarpan • Tennessee Walking • Thoroughbred • Trakehner • Unicorn • Waler • Walkaloosa • Welara • Welsh • Zebra

"COLOR" DOCUMENTATION

In OF and CM Breed classes, you will need documentation if your horse has a rare, historical or restricted color or pattern (e.g., "splash") for the breed you have assigned your model, and you may need to change breeds if it does not exist in the breed.
How do you tell if the color/pattern is rare, historical, restricted or non-existent? Check out Lesli Kathman's Coat Color Guide. Lesli is a regular presenter at BreyerFest and a respected expert on horse color. The Guide contains tables and you can just look up your horse's breed/color combination and see how she classifies it. If the horse's color/pattern for this breed is:

"definitive" or "present," you do not need to provide documentation.
"unknown" (likely non-existent) in the breed, choose another breed.
"rare," "restricted," or "historical," document the existence of the color/pattern in the breed.

You can document your rare, restricted or historical color by putting text in the "References" area of the OMHPS "References" tab. In that location, you could say for example, “According to the Color Coat Guide by Lesli Kathman, [put your color/pattern here] is [rare, restricted, historical], but it exist[s/ed] in the [breed].” That way, you have at least established that it exists in the gene pool, and that is enough.
You should also consider adding some photo documentation if you have an image of a real horse in the same color to the "References Images" area of the "References" tab.

COLLECTIBILITY DOCUMENTATION

In Collectibility classes, you should have documentation for every entry. This is now the standard at live shows, because there are way too many model horses out there for judges to memorize.
As the Add Photos page describes in more detail, you have space on OMHPS to add standard collectibility information to your entry:

Mold name (e.g., "Hamilton") goes in the Description area of the Horse tab.
Edition Name (e.g., "Lafayette") goes in the Description area of the Horse tab.
Run Type (Special Run, etc.) is identified in the "Run Type" field of the Horse tab.
Number Made are selected from the drop-down menu in the model's Horse tab.
Years Made is selected from the drop-down menus in the Collectability tab.
Certificate of authenticity photos can be uploaded using the References images area of the References tab.
More Information can be added to the Description area of the Horse tab, if you desire but please keep it to less than 50 words.

Despite the fact that you are entering this information in different tabs and fields, the judges will see it all together in a single space while judging.
Use Identify Your Breyer to help fill in any information you might not know.
If you don’t have documentation with your collectibility entry, the judges have the option of simply skipping the entry (effectively disqualifying it).

PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION

Because most of the performance classes already tell us what the horse is supposed to be doing (e.g., "English Pleasure"), we only need a description of the activity in the Other Performance and Scene classes. For those classes, provide a description of what the horse is doing in the Description area of the Performances tab.
As the Performance classlist page describes, many of the "Other Performance" disciplines require you to upload an image of the pattern or test, showing where your horse is on the pattern/test. You can upload this image in the Reference images area of the Performances tab.
If you don’t have documentation for your Other Performance or Scene entry, the judge has the option of simply skipping over the entry and not judging it.