Reading standardbred and thoroughbred horse brands

Got an OTTB or a branded standardbred? Want to know to a greater extent than virtually the horse?

 

Reading standardbred Equus caballus brands is a cinch – if y'all know how. You tin create it yourself together with detect out to a greater extent than virtually your horse’s racing history, who bred it, together with the horse’s breeding.

Finding the identity of a thoroughbred is a lilliputian to a greater extent than involved, simply do-able.

For starters, standardbred horses inwards New Zealand together with Commonwealth of Australia are freeze branded on the cervix (offside). Freezebranding inwards New Zealand was root introduced inwards 1970.

 

New Zealand uses the “TVI” system, inwards a two-line brand, using the symbols below.

The 3 symbols on the operate past times work announce the twelvemonth of birth, together with the Z indicates the horses’ province of origin – New Zealand. The bottom work of the build is a four-symbol number.

For the build pictured above, the symbols at the operate past times demo the Equus caballus was born inwards 1988, inwards New Zealand.

The minute row – shows the registration break – 3370.

To detect the advert together with pedigree of a horse, larn to the Harness Racing NZ website, together with input into the root box 883370.

This Equus caballus is Greener Than.

Another illustration is:

This agency the Equus caballus was born inwards 2001, inwards New Zealand, together with his registered break is 1569. His advert is Baltic Knight.

 

Australia uses “alpha angle” symbols – which are also used past times other breeds – together with the brands are made of 2 lines of iv symbols each.

From August 1, 1987, all freeze brands had an “S” added, denoting the Equus caballus is a standardbred. Thus, the root missive of the alphabet on all brands is “S”, followed past times the province ID number, thus the horses’ twelvemonth of birth:

• 2-New South Wales
• 3-Victoria
• 4-Queensland
• 5-South Australia
• 6-Western Australia
• 7-Tasmania

In the made-up illustration above, the Equus caballus was born inwards South Commonwealth of Australia inwards 1991, together with its registered break is 8410.

Go to Australian Harness Racing to detect out the identity of the horse. Input the horse’s build into the Freezebrand box on the site.

Standardbreds inwards the the States either convey a tattoos on their upper within lip, 5 characters long, or afterward 1995, may convey letters together with numbers on their neck. Go to the US Trotting Association to input your horse’s brand. For horses born inwards 1981 or earlier, the root 3 digits are numbers. The quaternary grapheme tin live on a missive of the alphabet or a number, together with the 5th grapheme is a missive of the alphabet indicating the twelvemonth of foaling. The letters M, N, O, Q, together with U are non used inwards tattoos of horses born inwards 1981 or earlier. The twelvemonth missive of the alphabet for horses born inwards 1982  is “A”, together with thus on downwards the alphabet, except for I,O,Q, together with U.

 

Identifying a thoroughbred horse

Thoroughbreds are non every bit straightforward, every bit inwards gild to build an identification, y'all must apply to NZ Racing using this form (PDF). It costs $25. If the search is unsuccessful, the fee is refunded.

Thoroughbreds are commonly branded alongside numbers on the offside – the bottom break existence the year. The other side has a nada brand, which tin live on a breeder’s mark, or a vet clinic’s brand.

Other breeds are also branded inwards this way, together with breeders tin register their build alongside specific organisations. There is no fundamental build database inwards New Zealand.

 

 

 

 

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