Where do you keep your passports?

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Where do you keep your horse's passports for those of you who don't keep your horses at home, but say on a livery yard or similar?

Do you leave your passports on the yard or keep them at home? For those that keep them at home (or vice versa) would you give a copy for the yard to keep?

I know passports are needed to travel, would a photocopy be sufficient or does it need to be the original?
 

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I think it should be kept on the yard with horse so in an emergency the horse could be travelled. My horses are at home and I keep the passport in my lorry so I've always got it with me when travelling but when Rose goes up to my trainer for schooling, the passport stays with her.
 

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Technically they should be on the yard with the person who has "Care & Control". In practice - They live in a dedicated box which gets grabbed every time the trailer goes out. It can mean I have more passports than horses but everything transported has a passport in case of breakdown etc. I would not want to have to find the YO in the middle of the night to get a passport for a stupid early start or in an emergency. And I only live 2 minutes from the yard..
 

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My horses are kept at home and I keep them on the lorry. 2 are out competing on a regular basis and the other horses’ passports are on the lorry in case of a vet emergency.
 

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Where do you keep your horse's passports for those of you who don't keep your horses at home, but say on a livery yard or similar?

Do you leave your passports on the yard or keep them at home? For those that keep them at home (or vice versa) would you give a copy for the yard to keep?

I know passports are needed to travel, would a photocopy be sufficient or does it need to be the original?
My liveries keep them in their allocated chest freezers or their plastic drawer shelves . I keep mine in their individual box files
 

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Mine are in folder close to front door at home. I pop the required one into the 'horsebox handbag' every time I am going out.

I def wouldn't permanently leave at yard or in car/box in case of theft or damage.

I have photocopies at yard, but to be honest they are from last summer so already out of date as flu jabs all done over winter.
 

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Usually in my room or in the car. I would not like to leave it at the yard in case it got lost, and by lost i mean i loose it lol
 

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When on livery it was with the yard owner but now they are at home they are in the home office BUT I should put them in the car as plan to be out lots this year so makes sense to have them on hand especially as a few venues round here are checking passports because of the flue outbreak.
 

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My horses are at home so passports live in landrover as rescue service will not recover horses home without passport .
 

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when we had a lorry we had a safe in it to keep them now they are in the glove compartment of the tow car we use the car to visit daily
 

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My passports are at home, as are my horses now but even when I only had one at livery it stayed at home bacause I once had to give one to a yard owner and they lost it! I was gutted, not because I had to pay for a new one but because it had his racing travel history inside it.
 

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Passports are kept at home in dedicated Horse Documents folder. Horses on a private rented yard 2 mins drive away, and I don't have transport, so by the time any emergency transport could get here, I could either shoot home and get it or ask someone at home to drive it up.
 

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Kept at home in pet cupboard.
Only one yard requested they be kept there and that was when they became mandatory.
One yard requested a photocopy of front page and possibly flu page.
6 other yards have not asked of ponies even have passports.
 

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Our field and stables are 1/2 mile from our house and passports are kept at home in a drawer with the trailer keys. Even when on livery passport was never asked for by YO or kept at the yard.
 
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What happens if the passport has never been changed to new owners name and address, and you are two down the line . IS the whole system even enforceable any more. Ive never been asked to produce a passport while traveling a horse, or by a vet.
 
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