Stolen Horses and The National Equestrian Database (NED)

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Do you know that the National Equestrian Database (NED) can reduce the chance of your horse being stolen and if it is stolen, increase the chance of it being recovered? Two very good reasons to associate with your horse in NED!

What to do? - step by step

1) find your horse on NED and check that the basic information provided to NED by your passport issuer is correct, complete and up to date

2) associate yourself with your horse by clicking on "associate yourself with this equine"

3) check that all your horse’s security identifiers are correctly recorded; if a freezemark or microchip number is missing you can add it yourself

4) upload a clear photo of your horse

How does this help me?

If your horse is lost, stolen or goes missing on loan, being associated with your horse in NED allows you to immediately…

1) flag the horse as stolen or missing

2) add some detailed notes that might help identify your horse if anyone sees it

3) publish your contact details, so anyone with information can quickly let you know

Your horse will then also be clearly marked as lost or stolen on a NED Passport Check - so if someone is being offered your horse for sale – alarm bells will ring.

NED features the most recently reported lost/stolen horse with a photo on its home page for every visitor to see, increasing the chance of a missing horse being found as quickly as possible. This has happened several times already, enabling missing horses to be returned.

NED also maintains a lost/stolen register which missing horses can stay on free-of-charge for as long as it takes to recover them.

Don’t delay, associate today at www.nedonline.co.uk
 
You have to pay if you want to be associated with a horse. This puts alot of people off. I think the NED is a bit of a joke tbh. When I searched my pony on there he is registered twice with two different passports.
One from years ago before we bought him and the one we got for him.

Obviously the PIO's don't check the NED or they would of noticed he already had a passport!!
 
Me too!

One of my neds
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doesn't appear on there at all, even though he's alive and kicking and has a very expensive breed passport.

I emailed NED in Oct 08 about it. It took them 3 months to reply saying they'd look into it. Never heard another thing and he's still not on there.
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Only possible benefit is if they bring in more stupid horse taxes, he won't have to pay, as he doesn't exist according to NED!!
 
Very interesting post, I just had an interview for a research job which partly involves validating the data on NED to verify accuracy etc. It appears there are 3 problems with it...duplicate passports/multiple registration, retention of data on deceased horses and discrepancies between horse and owner location.
 
That was an introductory fee, you now have to pay to add anything, I don't know what the cost is though. As for updating and crrecting any missing/incorrect info - you having a laugh?
I have spent months trying to get them to sort out the Freezemark that my donkey has. They have photos, they have registration papers and freesemarking papers, yet they insist it still belongs to a bay mare HORSE!
 
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It appears there are 3 problems with it...duplicate passports/multiple registration, retention of data on deceased horses and discrepancies between horse and owner location.


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Only three! :-)
Well one of ours is a loan pony, so there are different addresses for horse and owner and a thrid where the horse acutlly is kept.
Missing data- although it is on the actual passport, it is not on the database on two or ours
Duplicate records voer 25 yrs old of a deceased horse.
Errors notified not corrected Missing freezemarks and ds not added.
Horsewatch need a crime ref no for a stolen horse, will ned take anyone who has the right user id and password change details or report as stolen?
Not to metion buying points for every lookup, addition or association or correction.
I paid a lot for all the passports to be set up and entered, don't want to have to pay to correct their mistakes.
 
alternatively, put a piccie of your horse with all it's breeding details on horsemart or similar with a caption saying: nice horse available here, come take it....
The ideal of NED giveing horseowners more security is about as dumb as publishing your bank details on facebook would be!!
People can see if the horse is registered with BSJA, BD, BE etc, all they need to do is look it up, see where it competes, follow it home and they have themselves a nice horse, know exactly what breeding it is and its competition record...Crazy, stupid and irresponsible!! Not too mention a huge waste of money!
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alternatively, put a piccie of your horse with all it's breeding details on horsemart or similar with a caption saying: nice horse available here, come take it....
The ideal of NED giveing horseowners more security is about as dumb as publishing your bank details on facebook would be!!
People can see if the horse is registered with BSJA, BD, BE etc, all they need to do is look it up, see where it competes, follow it home and they have themselves a nice horse, know exactly what breeding it is and its competition record...Crazy, stupid and irresponsible!! Not too mention a huge waste of money!
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I must admit that is the first thing I thought of and tend to agree, but then I am paranoid so wasn't sure if it was just my mind.
 
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