What is the point of overstamping a passport?

[Marigold4]

My two-year old filly is passported as a part-bred with the BCPS. She is connie x WB. When passporting her originally, I toyed with the idea of using the Sports Pony Society instead but in the end went for BCPS. I have heard of people overstamping passports with another society. Why do they do this? Would there be any advantage in overstamping her passport with the SPSS?

 

[TheMule]

Only if you wanted to grade her with the SPSS. I looked into doing this for one of my mares- I decided it was very expensive for no gain!

 

[Spiritedly]

One of mine is registered with Saddlebred Association but I had his passport overstamped by the AHS as I wanted to compete him in pb Arab classes so he needed to be registered with them.

 

[Marigold4]

Only if you wanted to grade her with the SPSS. I looked into doing this for one of my mares- I decided it was very expensive for no gain!

Thanks for replying. I was thinking of grading her with SPSS at the local Futurity as a three year old. They combine the two events at the same venue. But I guess I could just grade her at Futurity if overstamping with SPSS just adds to the expense but without any extra benefit?

 

[ihatework]

Futurity isn’t a grading, it’s an evaluation.

Some people (either breeders or potential buyers) can be sniffy about some studbooks (particularly in the dressage world!) and therefore may overstamp/grade with a different studbook to enable offspring to get full papers with the preferred studbook.

But in general it’s an expensive exercise for no real benefit.