Genetic test for spanish bred horse?

[ginatina]

I have a friend with a lovely PRE.
His breeding is unknown, but a contact advised that maybe you can send a clipping of his mane for genetic testing to the Spanish authorities, in order for him to be issued with a passport with his correct breeding on it?
Has anyone heard of this?!
Any thoughts/ advice welcomed, thank you

 

[littleshetland]

I have a breeding unknown PRE, so I'm watching this with interest.

 

[Barlow]

Your best port of call for this would be Mary McBryde the studbook registrar. https://bapsh.co.uk/about-bapsh-ltd/meet-the-directors/

 

[Meowy Catkin]

It was my understanding that you need to have a strong idea who the parents are because you need to compare the DNA of your horse with specific individuals.

Having said that it is worth noting that clipped hair is useless for any DNA test. The following comes from animalgenetics.eu who test for equine coat colour and equine genetic diseases amongst other things.

1. Most of our genetic tests for horses are performed on DNA extracted from the roots of its mane and/or tail hairs. To collect a sample of your horse, first make sure the horse is not wet when collecting a sample. A sample is collected by pulling 30-40 mane and/or tail hairs from a horse. It is important to pull the hairs and confirm that the actual root of the hair is attached. The root of the hair is what contains the genetic material of your horse. Therefore, hairs that break off or cut hairs do not provide an adequate sample of your horse. The mane hair of a foal can be very fine and not have much of a root for us to work with. When collecting a sample from a young foal, it is often better to collect the hair from the tail of the horse instead of the mane.

 

[Kaycee]

Meowy Catkin is correct, you need to have some information regarding the possible parentage, so the DNA can be compared to those particular individuals. You might be able to glean some information from the peson you bought the horse from?
To extract the DNA, it requires the mane/tail hair root bulbs or a blood sample.

At the risk of sounding pedantic, a PRE is a Spanish horse that is fully registered/passported with ANCCE in Spain. Anything else is known as an Andalusian or Spanish horse.

 

[shortstuff99]

As said above you would need to know who the dam and sire are to do the genetic test. The parents would also need to be APTO approved and you would then need a covering certificate. He could still be registered as PRE Fusion in the UK though via BAPSH.