RE: travel documents

Shannon Loomis (loomis.102@ohio-state.edu)
Tue, 3 Dec 1996 18:52:47 -0500

>Sending a coggins in w/ the application for a ride doesn't guarrantee
>that the horse & test march. We actually eyeball the horse against the
>document before they are allowed to park on the gorunds! We have had
>unmarked horses with obviously incorrect coggins before (ie paper=Arab,
>horse is warmblood, or papers=mare, horse is gelding).

hello,

Bummer! I had a coggin's done on Star this year. I was really surprised
when it came back! According to the paper he was a 13 yo, bay, Morgan with
no registration papers by the generic name of Star. According to his
papers, he is a 15 yo, chestnut Morgan named Quail Meadow Star. If anyone
really checked that coggin's, I would would have been fined on the spot and
kicked off the grounds for having the wrong horse. That would have really
burned me - I had the right test done and paid good money for it. The
worst of it was, I don't think it could have been corrected without sending
in more blood, the ODA doesn't hand out negative forms.

Ah well, no one cares I am sure, but make sure your vet has the proper,
current info on your horse, don't rely on back records at his office.
Write it down and put it with the test tube. Fortunately, I only needed
them for one event - my trailer is illegal in most states (grandfathered in
OH, thank goodness), so we're kinda stuck in-state.

Shannon Loomis and Quail Meadow Star (OK, he does look bay sometimes but he
isn't old enough to start lying about his age)