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starsky

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Just been on it and found my horses, but you have to pay to associate them with you on the database. Have you done this? Benefits? Pro's/cons? Are you going to bother? Would you use it when purchasing a new horse?

http://www.nedonline.co.uk for anyone who wants a look....
 
I can honestly say I did use this when I bought my new horse not for any particular reason just out of curiousity.
Though I did want to contact my mares mums owner again just to be nosey.
 
A few months ago you could get 3 months trial membership for free. I signed up for it but it wouldn't let me log on. Spoke to them and they assured me the problem would be resolved; it never was . . . really irritating. Maybe it all works better now. Sorry, that's a bit of a digression, but wondered if anyone else had the same problem?
 
I have 9 horses, and there have been problems with all of their details on NED, which I have advised them of but they have not been resolved.

These problems range from an incorrect freezemark to not allowing me to associate myself with 4 of my horses because the PIO hasn't provided NED with my postcode (even though all other details tally and I clearly know my own postcode
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So I for one think NED is useless
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I also tried to associate my self with 2 of my horses but no luck as the wpcs had not updated the details, and i did pay so no luck there. Dont think i will bother again.
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Ah, so they are now introducing the fees! I associated myself when it was all free, and found that somebody has a horse registered with the freezemark of one of mine. Despite as much proof as possible being sent to them via different authorities, and photos from me they will not amend the records.
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There have been a number of thread about NED and the formal replies have been posted - rather than repeat (at length) the position with NED, it might be beneficial to search the NED threads to get some context to the issues that sit behind some of the above comments?

One point I will underscore here though is that NED is purely the recipient of data and is prevented legally by the data providers from amending any data, even if it is believed (or evidenced) to be incorrect. Therefore NED can only refer you data issues back to the source supplier. The only organisations allowed to amend data are the original data owners which are primarily the studbooks. If incorrect freezebrand information is believed to have been supplied for example, please contact your studbook and request that this data is revised and resupplied to NED.

One other key point is that historically data has been recorded by PIOs with greatly varying standards of quality. Some of these historical data capturing issues are now causing problems and many cannot be rectified as it involves data which was not captured at the time and which now cannot be gained retrospectively. Obviously as time moves on the quality of new data being captured and the more widespread use of UELNs will improve the data exponentially.

Thousands of horse owners have now registered with NED and are using it to discover large amounts of information about their horses that they didn't know before. Also, horse welfare is high on the agenda for NED and in partnership it is developing the missing on loan/stolen element of our database to publicise horses which have been removed without consent and should these horses be purchased by an unsuspecting buyer, one cheap and simple check on NED will not only save them losing their money, but could also enable the horse or pony to be reunited with their rightful owner.

The NED team is extremely small as funding is very tight, but they work tirelessly to help people get the best from NED and the development team are constantly working with existing and new data providers to improve the content of NED. This database will undoubtedly develop into one of the world's leading sources of equine information and will provide an unparalled source of data which will be of benefit to the equestrian world in many, many ways. Whilst NED is imperfect, it is the best verified source of equine data that we have.

If anyone has had issues logging on or associating with their horses please contact the NED team as there are some known problems (such as post code not being supplied by the PIO for example) that we have workarounds for if sufficient other evidence of ownership can be supplied.
 
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