Re: RC: Tips to ID reg. purebred Arabian by markings

Easy. Get the name of the sire or dam, the approximate age of the horse, the names of the breeder or the owners of the sire or the dam would be useful, and click it into the CD rom "Arabian Horse data source" and there you go. Assuming it's an Arab right? Not a mule. (what else are there besides Arabs and mules, ha ha) Many folks on ridecamp have such a CD including myself, and we can obsessively search around for horses on rainy days like today. I have been able to find the horses I rode as an eensey little girl in the .....past...and did that by inputting the name of the owner. They had dandy pedigrees. You may not be able to register said horse, but you can get a pedigree anyway for your own fun. Assuming nobody is lying.. Beth

>From: "Jeff Brickson"

>To: "Ridecamp"

>Subject: RC: Tips to ID reg. purebred Arabian by markings

>Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:41:36 -0500

>I was asked by someone for tips to find the ID of a purebred that did not

>come with papers, but using markings only. Obviously if the horse was never

>registered in the first place, it is impossible without the previous owner's

>statement of who the parents were. The method is not guaranteed to ID even

>a registered purebred, but it DOES narrow the list down to a few possibles.

>The most uncertainty is in assessment of age from teeth and the drawing

>ability of the owner doing the registration. If anyone knows of a quicker

>method please tell me! bb

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>How to ID a purebred, registered Arabian that has white markings (if no

>markings at all, it's basically impossible):

>If freeze marked, you have an already-ID'd horse! Just shave the mark close

>to the skin, photograph (better than drawing), and interpret it using the

>KryoKinetics website's diagram. Then call the Registry to find the last

>owner on record. Lip tattoos are not as reliable (see KryoKinetics website

>for all the reasons).

>If no freeze mark, then you must use the Arabian Registry's CD (around $95

>now) and look at every diagram your search turns up. Someday soon it will

>be accessible on the Internet for daily usage fees in case you don't want to

>buy a copy just to find your one or two horses.

>Record everything you remember about where/who your horse came from. IF

>from dealer, where the dealer bought the horse or where the dealer bought

>the horse from. Get all location and name details.

>Get a few good estimates of its age from its teeth, and take the average.

>If grey horse, clean its face and lower legs very well, then shave these

>areas closely to reveal any white skin. Photograph or draw leg markings

>from front & both sides. If skin is mottled making delineation difficult,

>it may help to darken the skin on the dark side to the midline of the

>mottled 'line' before taking a picture, but this means that mark will be a

>guess.

>Note which of the white markings seem to be distinctive or unique.

>Take note of and draw/photo any white markings on lower lip and belly, too.

>Note which feet are all dark, all white, and which are parti-colored. (I

>wish the CD could text-search this field!)

>These two latter descriptions will help you 'skim' the records more quickly

>to eliminate wrong IDs.

>Search the CD for horses by color, sex, and state by state, starting with

>the most likely, and the most likely age RANGE. Open each horse's record to

>the diagram of markings. If you come across a horse with 'no markings on

>record', it is likely a horse without markings. Print out the *very* close

>matches. If you find a really close match, that's probably your animal. If

>no close match, keep working. Search all the states. For CA, use narrow

>age ranges because of the number of Arabians there. Keep track of where you

>left off (what states you searched already) alphabetically when you get up

>for coffee/sleep, next month, etc.

>If no horse matches even in the U.S. or Canadian databases, then your horse

>was probably never registered, even if it may be purebred.

>Contact the previous owner to get the horse's papers. Send them a picture

>for 'positive ID' with description of horse's attitude, temperament, scars

>or outstanding conformational defects, and aptitudes, +/or buy a blood or

>DNA test, whichever is appropriate for the situation (depends on many

>factors).

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