covering certificates

[lizyoung]

Is anyone else having problems getting covering certificates for mares covered last year? I want to register one of my foals with Sport Horse Breeding but the stallion I used (a young well promoted eventing stallion with a stud fee to match and standing at an very well known AI Center) proves not to have been graded when covering last year, he has since been graded with an European Stud book. The Stallion's owner tells me to send DNA of the mare in when I send off passport details, microchip details and foals DNA to cover for this. All well and good but instead of a fee of 80 to register it will cost me 160!
A little steep given that I've already paid her stud fee believing I would get a covering certificate. Has anyone else had this problem? If so what have they done about it Sport Horse Breeding must be fed up of mare owners baulking at the extra costs.

 

[lily1]

I bought a yearling who hadnt been registered but I was given a covering certificate........ the sire is deceased so I have had to have her & her Dam DNA tested & microchipped & that has cost me £115 plus the vets fees (which I havent had yet) the breeder promised to pay for it but upto date she hasnt.

 

[_daisy_]

did you not chase the certificate in October last year?
when I put my mare in foal, i collected the semen from the stud and was told to call the stud in October when shed been confirmed in foal and they would then post the certficate out - which i did and a few days later the certificate arrived.

id be calling the stud to chase the certificate and stae if they dont send it that the costs of registering the foal with the extra costs will be billed to them and if they dont pay you will take them to small claims.

 

[zoeshiloh]

I used an SHB(GB) graded stallion on one of my mares, but instead of an SHB covering certificate as I asked, the owner gave me a Wetherbys one. They wouldn't change it, and SHB(GB) said they could do nothing about it. I ended up shelling out over £300 to register with Weatherby's instead (DNA testing, registering mare AND foal etc). Not happy.

 

[_daisy_]

£300 bloody hell! dont envy you at all.
i used a SHB graded stallion and got a Wetherbys certificate, registered my foal with SHBGB but it didnt cost me anywhere near as much as £300 - maybe its cos my mare was SHB registered?

 

[zoeshiloh]

SHB wouldn't accept my wetherbys certificate. Foal is now registered with Wetherbys, but had to register mum with them to get foal registered (about £200 for mum, plus £70 for foal) then there was vet bills on top of that, so over £300 really! Mare is SHB registered, hence wanting to use an SHB stallion

 

[Maesfen]

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SHB wouldn't accept my wetherbys certificate. Foal is now registered with Wetherbys, but had to register mum with them to get foal registered (about £200 for mum, plus £70 for foal) then there was vet bills on top of that, so over £300 really! Mare is SHB registered, hence wanting to use an SHB stallion

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How strange. I sent in a Weatherbys certificate for Kitty to SHBGB for that very same reason, (she's full TB but never going to race so I took the cheaper option) which they accepted and her breeding is included too (if it hadn't been I would have used the Weatherbys route for sure) Since then, her dam has just been the highest scoring mare at their gradings too so just as well they accepted Kitty!

I'd love to know the reason they turned your foal down though.

 

[_daisy_]

same here Pat, they didnt refuse my certificate either, I did have to have DNA done for acceptance into the auxiliary stud book but it actually worked out cheaper doing it that was rather than registering my mare with wetherbys to allow her daughter to be registered with them.

wierd!