Horse is meant to be dead but is alive and well!!!

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Hi All, Just got my tb horse checked for microchip and turns out he is registered with weatherbys as being dead!

They want to DNA test him to confirm his id, as do I, but I am a little worried that something dodgy happened here and what can of worms will be opened up.
He is incredibly well bred and was sold in Tattersalls in Ireland as a yearling to an Irish NH trainer. This is all the info I have on him. I read on here about two similar cases in the uk. Does anyone know what happened in these cases in the end? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
Yeah seems that way ok..just concerned about what may lie ahead. God knows; he has a scar down his hind cannon bone that probably would have written him off for racing. He was never named. The stallions foals apparently sold for up to 50,000 upwards to 100,000 so I would say he was bought and insured for a huge sum if this is anything to go by.
 
I highly doubt it would be for insurance. 90% of racehorses aren't insured over there and also the insurance company's are quite strict. I knew one horse who broke a leg at home was buried and had to be dug up a few months later and have the leg removed for insurance purposes. This wasn't an isolated case either!!

The said horse may have gone "flapping" so he would have been declared deceased to the turf club and then a duplicate passport made and he then ran in another name.

What trainer had the horse? You can PM me if you want to keep it private!
 
Little Squirrel said:
The said horse may have gone "flapping" so he would have been declared deceased to the turf club and then a duplicate passport made and he then ran in another name.

What trainer had the horse? You can PM me if you want to keep it private!
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Yup this is far more likely! How big is he....if not overly big the flapping route is even more likely!! Whereabouts in Ireland was he?
 
When you spoke to weatherbys did they say the microchip was your horse that was dead? Was it his name and description that was ment to be dead? When I first for my tb, he came with a pet I'd passport with no info on him, I got the vet to check his microchip and rang wetaherbys to find out who he is and they said his microchip related to a dead bay mare and I have a chestnut gelding! It turned out that the man I spoke to at weatherbys gave me wrong info..I later found out who he was when speaking to another person at weatherbys.
 
I knew someone with a horse like this out of Ireland, turned out it had gone to slaughter as abandoned with whole herd (dealer gone bust due to all financial whatsit problems out there). Had then been stolen from slaughter house and taken to a dealer who ships them to england to sell with different passports and sells them to hunt yards etc who then sell them on as hunters. So someone who works in/with slaughter house/transport companies must have taken their pick of the nicer horses and "rescued" them for a quick bit of money. Horse is an absolute star, so scary to think how close he was to being in a dog food can!
With various signatures from dealers etc they managed to get another passport and all was fine :)
 
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