About Model Horse Hub

Model Horse Hub is Amanda and Stephen Mount, a husband and wife. That is the whole company. No investors, no growth team, nobody upstairs asking what the engagement numbers look like.

Amanda is the collector. She has spent years inside spreadsheets, notebooks and Facebook albums trying to keep track of a growing herd, and she knows the hobby from the inside — what LSQ means, why OF and CM aren't the same thing, what a showholder actually needs at seven in the morning on class day. Most of what's on this site started as Amanda saying “I wish this existed.”

Stephen builds them: the catalog behind the Registry, the ring console that has to work from a fairgrounds with one bar of signal, the row-level security that keeps your purchase prices actually private.

It starts the way it starts for everyone. A notebook. Then a spreadsheet. Then a second spreadsheet because the first one got messy. Then Facebook albums, and a vague memory of that palomino you sold in 2019 — what was her name?

The bigger problem is that nothing in this hobby could be checked. Anyone can type “NAN qualified” into a sale post, and a buyer has never had a way to look it up. Condition grades meant whatever the seller wanted them to mean. Show results lived in one host's spreadsheet and died there when the laptop did.

So: one place for the herd, one published rulebook for the shows, and a record a stranger can verify without asking anyone's permission.

• Catalog the herd. One entry per horse — the reference it came from, photos from every angle, condition, and what you paid, that last part visible to you and nobody else. Filter by mold, maker, finish or status, save the views you use, and print the report when your insurer asks. Already keeping a spreadsheet? Import it.
• Show, and host shows. Photo shows and live shows, run to one published rulebook. Placings pay points toward season standings, a 1st or 2nd in a deep enough class mints a qualification card stamped with the field it beat, and cards plus career points earn titles the horse keeps for life. Hosting is free, and the ring console runs off a phone at the table.
• Buy and sell. A listing in the Market is the horse's passport, not a photo and a paragraph: what it has won, what condition it's in, who has owned it. The Blue Book sits alongside it with average, median and range from completed sales.
• Look a model up. The Registry holds OF releases, the molds under them, and artist resins, with maker, sculptor, scale, finish and year. Collectors correct and extend it, and a correction lands for everybody at once.
• Talk to people. The Paddock is the feed, plus barns for breed circles, regional clubs and trading groups, an events board for what's happening off-site, and Help ID for when you have a body in hand and no idea what it is.

The free tier covers the hobby: catalog the herd, enter shows, host shows, list horses, read the Blue Book. Pro buys conveniences — extra photo slots, price-history charts, printable show tags, a monthly ledger of what the collection has been doing.

Nothing that makes a record worth believing is in it. Show results, condition grades, ownership history and card verification are free permanently. A proof behind a paywall is not a proof.

We take no cut of a sale. There is no listing fee, no selling fee, and no commission — subscriptions are how this gets paid for.

• We don't hold your money. There is no escrow and no checkout. Buyer and seller agree terms here and settle payment between themselves, the way the hobby already does.
• We don't judge disputes. If a deal goes wrong we are not the referee. What we can do is keep the record — the offer, the agreed terms, what was marked sent and received — so whoever does referee has something to read.
• We don't issue NAN cards. MHH qualification cards are this platform's own program. They are not NAMHSA or NAN paperwork, and we don't claim otherwise.
• We don't train on your photos. They are not training data and they are not for sale — see the policy below.

Fair question, and this hobby has earned the right to ask it. Model Horse Blab, the hobby's longtime forum, went dark for almost two years. MH$P — the sales hub this hobby leaned on since 1996 — was hit by ransomware and never fully came back. We built this knowing that history, not despite it.

So, plainly: your data is backed up automatically, every night. You can export your whole collection — every horse, every record, every qualification card — as a CSV, plus a PDF report, from your settings, whenever you want. You don't have to ask us and you don't have to wait.

And if we ever have to wind Model Horse Hub down — we hope not, but we're not going to promise you “never” — every member gets real advance notice and a full export window before anything shuts off. Your herd's history belongs to you.