Hallelujah!
Yes, he (breeder) can issue his own covering certs, and then register stock with his chosen place.
With some passport agencies (most Breeds) they may well need to have a stallion inspection before stock can be fully registered.
Fillies from registered stock can usually be entered immediately, colts for some societies are entered, but if not changed to gelding by 2 or 3 yrs (dependant on society) then usually colt must be inspected to be licenced, or any progeny by said colt is not eligable.
I suspect in your case ycbm, that the breeder is trying to get a stud going, always hard. Am suprised your lad wasn't inspected before you had him. That said, at least Breeder is trying to make a start in registering breeding details
Yes, he (breeder) can issue his own covering certs, and then register stock with his chosen place.
With some passport agencies (most Breeds) they may well need to have a stallion inspection before stock can be fully registered.
Fillies from registered stock can usually be entered immediately, colts for some societies are entered, but if not changed to gelding by 2 or 3 yrs (dependant on society) then usually colt must be inspected to be licenced, or any progeny by said colt is not eligable.
I suspect in your case ycbm, that the breeder is trying to get a stud going, always hard. Am suprised your lad wasn't inspected before you had him. That said, at least Breeder is trying to make a start in registering breeding details
It kind of does you a favour in that respect, if you look on the bright side.No. The first thing that came to mind for me was works of art. The artist - the one who created it in the first place - gets to name it, and quite rightly. Dumb name or no, that's how it's identified. And some works of art that are considered to be of no consequence when they are first created gradually have their worth revealed, and it's through that that our appreciation of lots of the artist's work can mature.
I learnt after I named my foal that in Germany that with most registries the name is not set until the horse is registered either for sport with their FN, as a mare on entry to the studbook at 3+ years old, or as a stallion after licencing. Horses can have onbe name for the studbook (breeding) and another for competition, but that does not happen often.
ycbm, I think you have ultimately made the right decision. Even if his lineage can only be traced through his dam (and therefore, only his dam's offspring that can be traced), that's what there is to work with and I personally think that shouldn't be trifled with. And if he does become a little dressage star, and anyone does try to trace him, I don't think there will be any doubt as to who to credit for his dressage chops!
There was one thing I really wanted to reply to:
No. The first thing that came to mind for me was works of art. The artist - the one who created it in the first place - gets to name it, and quite rightly. Dumb name or no, that's how it's identified. And some works of art that are considered to be of no consequence when they are first created gradually have their worth revealed, and it's through that that our appreciation of lots of the artist's work can mature.
For example, consider the painter Georges Seurat. These days his work is seen as beautiful, brilliant, iconic and revolutionary. Yet he never sold a single painting in his lifetime. His first major work, Bathers at Asnières, was rejected by the Paris salon and confused the hell out of his contemporaries, to the point many thought it was rubbish - yet now it hangs in the National Gallery in London and is one of the gallery's jewels. Imagine if someone had bought it but hated its name and changed it. It could be hanging today in someone's loo, unappreciated, and the world might never know it.
Who knows what else his dam or breeder could produce? Or what Ludo's progeny will do? If there is a good reason in future to look it up, Ludo would not be able to be part of that story if he had a name change.
I dunno. Maybe it's a long bow to draw, but that's the comparison that came to mind.
Anyway. At least he isn't a Quarter Horse. I have quite a lot of those on my books and collectively they have some of the stupidest names I've ever seen. I thought my Quarter Horse mare's name was stupid, but I see they have gotten a lot stupider over the years!
Yes, definitely, he's on the Standardbred register as (PB) which I assume means part bred. The people I bought him from saw his mother and father. If he can't race it does make me wonder why they bred him, and whether he was simply a (lucky) mistake. I plan to contact his breeder and ask if we can change the Patch to something else beginning with P that will work better with his adult colour, which is not bay with one white patch as per his passport, but nearly white with a lot of conker colour spots. Then his foals can be papered to the same name and we can all be happy
Ideas for what the P could become are welcome! I quite like Previously Patchy as already suggested
there are a few around racing under rules and are pretty much always slower than their solid counterparts to the point that they have races just for them.
. All I know is I was pleased to see him step right under and power upwards, not push off the legs and have them flying out behind him. I bought the horse in front of me.
Another of ours had a proper show pony "daisy cutter" trot - was amazing to watch when he flicked over
I know been there done it got the t-shirt. I still let the buyer choose the name.
