Is my horse who we were told he is?

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Hi all,

I bought my horse from a dealer over 3 years ago. I live in France, and at the time I couldn't speak French, so I basically bought him with all my horse knowledge, checking feet, legs etc..
Anywho.. On his passport it says he is Black, He is FAR from black, He is a very light bay and even a cream colour on his belly.
Secondly, he has a white pastern on his hind leg, on his passport it says it is on the other leg.. (it's on his hind left where as on passport it says it's on his hind right).

Now, Being a dealer he said he knew nothing about the horse at all or his past, Although several things were covered up and later discovered when I got him home, and the fact I didn't see his passport before having him delivered.

Am I being paranoid and thinking the worst or are these just genuine mistakes on his passport?
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Doesn't sound like the passport matches the horse but tbh three years later is too late to start getting excited about it.
 
Is he microchipped? That would be one way of finding out, it doesn't look good, but what are the implications, provided you don't want to sell him on?
 
I am not sure if he is micro chipped, I will have to find out.

I don't plan on selling him in the near future, I am just very curious and if it ever did come to selling...
I would also like to track down his history and anything else that could be good to know.
I think he might have been sold to a knackers Yard in the past, which was shocking as In the passport it says it is compulsory for horses that will be destroyed for human consumption have to have some kind of jab (never heard that before) and it says he had the jab when he was 2 . ?!
 
Are any whorls mentioned on the passport? They are a good way of identifying the horse. Hair colour can change in horses. Some horses who are born black turn white etc. The white leg being described as the wrong one would make me suspicious.
 
Peoples perspective of colour can be different. I would say my pony is grey. His passport says Dun, and when i had him vetted by vet put down roan.
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I haven't seen anything else 'suspicious' just the colour and markings.


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Considering a passport is mainly about colour & markings then I think it is suspicious. It's always possible that you were actually given the wrong passport for that horse by the dealer. On the other hand you may have a totally different horse, with unknown history & the dealer handed you a passport with similar description. After all it's taken you 3 years to notice the error. After this period of time I think I'd try & get a nerw & correct passport for the horse. If you don't it will only cause you more problems later on.
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I bought a horse with a false dutch passport and had it confirmed by the people that issued it (we had to learn dutch a bit quick with the help of the computer and we emailed the wording in the passport with a photo of our neddy). We got the vet out and had another passport issued.
It may not be that your horse was going to the knackers yard but that the passport is from another horse which was.
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It does sound like it doesn't belong to your horse, but 3 years down the line is a long time especially if you've only just wanted to start looking into his history, i'd just get another issued if you're going to sell.
 
Is your vet coming up to the yard anytime soon to do jabs or something? If so I would get them to look at the horse and passport together and take it from there. If it is the wrong passport they should know what to do.
 
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Peoples perspective of colour can be different. I would say my pony is grey. His passport says Dun, and when i had him vetted by vet put down roan.
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Yes this is true; but I'd say there's a bit of a difference (distinctive), between light bay and black!
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I know people on my yard whos horses are different colours to what passport states. Due to them doing passport when the horse was a youngster and colour changing.
I am not saying this is the case, I would be a bit suspicious though, I would get your vet to have a look at the passport.
 
Monty's passport says that he is ten years younger, a hand smaller and has missed off his one tiny patch of white hair. His previous owner was the one who applied for the passport and I know the vet's who did it.......I think they just guestimated an age and height and were a bit quick looking him over for the other details.
 
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I am not sure if he is micro chipped, I will have to find out.

I don't plan on selling him in the near future, I am just very curious and if it ever did come to selling...
I would also like to track down his history and anything else that could be good to know.
I think he might have been sold to a knackers Yard in the past, which was shocking as In the passport it says it is compulsory for horses that will be destroyed for human consumption have to have some kind of jab (never heard that before) and it says he had the jab when he was 2 . ?!

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If you want to send us the details to admin@equinerescuefrance.org , we'll see if we can help you out!
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If it's any consolation I have a piebald who is marked on her passport as "bay", and had a liver chestnut who was also marked as "bay".

Although from the rest of your post it does sound like there is something amiss.
 
My chestnut mare had a black mane and tail when I bought her, so not surprisingly the vet mistook her for a bay and I had to have her vetting certificate altered. A friend had a white mare which was born chestnut with 4 white socks and a blaze. So yes, colour changes can and do happen but that doesn't mean that all passport errors are innocent. They aren't worth the paper they are printed on, to be frank.
 
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