Try ringing Weatherbys they will explain all including what you can and cant do in relation to AI.
Actually it will be a wont as they dont issue covering certificates for AI for newly registered stallions.
There is also two books within the NTR the stallions that are weatherbys NTR by birth but have a descrepency in the pdeigree somewhere and the one that would be overstamped by Weatherbys but are NTR VII stallions and would have no parentage recorded.
You do have a very stringent vetting by a vet of their choice; it'll take several hours, they leave no stone unturned from what I've heard about them! Their CCs this year have been confusing as NTR is not mentioned on them, just GSB as I queried a friend for putting GSB approved on their stud card and not NTR but they were right of course!
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You do have a very stringent vetting by a vet of their choice; it'll take several hours, they leave no stone unturned from what I've heard about them! Their CCs this year have been confusing as NTR is not mentioned on them, just GSB as I queried a friend for putting GSB approved on their stud card and not NTR but they were right of course!
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They have always said GSB on them i have never had one with NTR on it anywhere.
Still doesnt make the stallion GSB approved as they dont approve anything
Stallion should still be classed as NTR register approved otherwise she is advertising it as something it isnt ie GSB which as you well know means there has to be 8 pure TB crosses.
Its passport will say NTR which is what it is .
Is your stallion worth getting licensed? We see many stallion owners who need to take advice from an expert and then they will never use them. The stallion market will be very competitive in the next few years and many serious breeders only use stallions licensed by the major breed societies. The motto breed from the best to the best is not a bad one
The Foundation Stallion that carrys the V11 requires vetting as we did it costs around £450 to register a stallion and go through the vetting, once passed you then get five covering certificates within the registration price.
Once your stallion has a foal if a colt out of a GSB registered broodmare or a registered Broodmare NTR this resulting colt can be registered with out a vetting but must be named and I think its around £300 for the registration and the naming the vetting is very Stringent and will take 2/3 hours and there is no stome left unturned.
although the NTR will not record a V11 stallion parentage in a passport or resulting progeny passport they do give ref to it in some of there publications as we found Ricco is recorded and reg with SSH and has a five generation pedigree but he was not given a covering cert by the stallion owner even though he was a full TB in the GSB also his mother whom is no longer alive is not registered as a broodmare only as a mare so you need to have her DNA and reg as well.
sorry this is long winded but there is a lot to it.
also NO A1 they use to do it in a seperate book.
Thanks guys. It is just something I am thinking about at the moment, not that it is going to be an issue for a bit....we have a colt who is definitely at this stage good enough both in his type, confo, breeding and so far performance (futurity and showing) however....he was to be sold and kept entire, after which he would have gone down the usual grading routes......
However...horses being horses.......
2 days before going to his new home had managed to damage himself VERY badly in the field and tear his DDFT below the fetlock right down into the hoof. Hence he is very very lame and on box rest and rehab for the forseeable future.
At this stage, the vet is not optimistic that he will ever come sound enough to be ridden however he too agrees he is way too nice to cut and should be given a chance to prove himself as a stallion. He will almost definitely, if he does, never be able to jump (shame as I know he has jumped 3'3 fences as a weanling with ease!). I HOPE that I would be able to get him sound enough to go through a grading however if I don't then if he stays entire he will have to prove himself through his progeny and so I am just starting to think through options and routes we can go down....