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Inspection, Approval and Registration Inspection, approval and registration of warmblood foals can be confusing. In general, mares must be inspected and approved by a registry before her foals are eligible to be registered. Foals are registered in the registry of their dams. In addition, the sire of the foal must also have been approved by the registry. Mares must be approved at an official inspection and entered into a registry's studbook/mare book. In general, the book is divided into sections, according to the mares' scores. Each registry has specific requirements and ways of scoring and assigning mares, but, basically, a mare book is divided as follows: Pre-mare book--Mares with scores not sufficiently high to be entered into the mare book, main mare book or premium mare books, are sometimes placed in a pre-mare book. After they produce the required number of premium offspring (usually three) they are elevated to a higher status. (Not all registries have a pre-book.) Mare book, Main mare book and Premium mare book--these different books indicate the quality of the mare via her scores, with Premium, of course, being for the highest scoring mares. Some registries, such as the American Hanoverian Society, require that the mare be inspected the year she is bred, while others, such as ISR/Oldenburg NA, allow the mare to be inspected at the same time as the foal. It is the breeders' responsibility to know what the requirements of the registry are. Elite mares--in addition to high scores at inspection/approval, these mares have been successfully performance tested. Again, the manner in which a registry tests or allows for elite status varies. Stallions, without exception, must be evaluated and approved before they are allowed to sire registerable offspring. Many breeders have been duped into breeding to a stallion who is, indeed, registered (having been inspected and even branded, as a foal), but not approved for breeding. It can be a very disappointing and expensive mistake to discover that the offspring of a stallion are not eligible for registration. A stallion that has been inspected and branded as a foal, and issued registration papers, may later fail to pass inspection as a three-year-old, and thus become ineligible to compete in a stallion performance test. Without passing either a 100-day (United States) or an eleven-month test (Europe), a stallion cannot produce registered offspring. However, registries such as the American Warmblood Society and the American Warmblood Registry will usually accept the offspring of these stallions into their registries. When inquiring about breeding to a stallion always ask: 1) what breed he is ( i.e. what registry are his registration papers issued by), 2) what his performance test results were, 3) what registries he is approved by for breeding, and 4) is he fully or provisionally licensed. All of the warrnblood registries will accept Thoroughbred mares (approved, of course). Most also accept approved mares of the German warmblood breeds, Arabians and Shagya Arabians. Many will accept Selle Francais, Belgian, Dutch, Danish, Hungarian, and a few other less common breeds into their registries. Again, it is essential to contact the association you plan to register your foal with, and understand their specific requirements regarding the approval of the mare and stallion, and the registration of the resultant foal--before you breed. All Text and Articles Copyright of Carol Austin |
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This page last edited:Monday, April 28, 2008
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