Owners of registered horses - watch where you get your passport!!

[Esther.D]

Showjumper alerted me to this with her post about New Forests, but I found it applies to shetlands too..so the breed societies are probably all doing it!

Look:

"If you have registered Shetlands but have chosen to obtain a passport from another passport issuer, it may mean that you have effectively “de-registered” your own pony. This would mean that you could not enter affiliated competitions and could not register any future offspring bred by the pony"

Luckily I am disorganised and haven't got their passports yet, I was going to get them through the British Driving Society - that was a close shave:eek: :eek:

[Miriam]

Glad Kito came with his which is from the Shetland Stud Society

[galadriel]

Nasty.

[artemis]

I have already replied to this one - all jumping on the bandwaggon. Making as much money as poss out of the horse owners. I'm still going for the cheapest. My shetland is a gelging anyway so what difference does it mak. It's only a bit of paper & he can't read!

I red somewhere that one of the german breed societies was charging about £70 is this true?

[Bebe]

I knew the WPCS was doing this but didn't realise others were too. Bebe is a registered partbred Cleveland Bay but her papers (which I have) have never been updated from her being registered as a foal. For me to get her a passport from the CBS I'd have to update her papers and then have them transferred to her passport, which will take considerable time and effort and cost double. I have no intentions of breeding from her, and even if I wanted to it wouldn't be wise according to veterinary instructions, so I'm going to go to the cheapest source. For me, that's Farmkey.

[stormhorse]

As other have said its just another way to make money out of us. I'm going with Farmkey as well. But I know the Veteran is one of the cheapest.

[Wally]

I was SO MAD when I was told about this that I contacted the Department of Trade and Industry. The whole bunch are guilty of being in restraint of trade, contrary to public policy! They are acting ilegally.

The DTI confirmed that what they were up to was totally illegal and I was told to contact DEFRA.....which I did:D :D I must have been not the first to speak to them that day. DEFRA also seemed a little sniffy and too confirmed that what the societies were doing was against the law.
Don't worry they cannot "de-register" your horse just because you havn't got a passport in thier name from the breed society your horse belongs to.

I feel like contacting the Shetland pony society and demanding a public retraction in the Shetland times!

[artemis]

Good on yer Wally. In the other thread about this I said that I thought it was illegal.
I still expect the goalposts to be changed by our incompetent government. So I am biding my time.
Everyone who has been conned by their respective breed societies should flood them with demands for information & threats to sue, especially those who now have 2 passports per horse.

[Wally]

How the devil are folk with dually registered horses supposed to get on?

You have a X bred horse - so which society do you get chucked out of? According to thier thinking you HAVE to be thrown out by the society you didn't register for a passport with!


What are they using for brains?

[Mossy]

The WMN has a lot to answer for on this one!!!! How many dual registered Welsh x Tb mares are around. They make good eventers I am told. I know of a very good jumping Welsh x tb stallion who is a very busy gentleman. Are his progeny not Welsh or not TB. [Both are closed stud books] It stinks! My two are both registered. If Moss breeds all my financial worries will be over for ever!!! but breeding from Connie is a real possibility. I WILL NOT BE HELD OVER A BARREL!!!!

[casey]

My colt is registered with the AES, BWBS and WPCS. He has passports to all 3. Does this mean he'll not be registered as he has passports to multiple issuers?:(

[Laetitia]

Want a laugh? For once in my life was actually organised to obtain a passport last year with the BDS. Now find, however, that they are issuing different style passports so my original one isn't any good so have to send it back for it to be replaced ( free of charge((I should jolly well think so)) ). Problem, I've put it somewhere safe and now can't find it amongst my heaps. L