Who Are They Trying To Kid?

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This is almost laughable if it wasn't so sad. From the strapline above - http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/article.php?aid=297250

NED is still not up to date and running satisfactorily as it was promised and hyped up to be so with huge gaps in the data, the acknowledgement of still, in spite of laws, that many horses don't have passports, just how is NED going to help in this research?
 
I like the bit about contacting a sample of owners to find out if the info held is correct. I have four and have no idea if their info is correct or not as I won't pay a subscription to NED to find out (and I don't think I'm alone there)
 
How can NED ever be correct when
1 People buy horses and dont update the passports
2 Horses are pts but passports not signed off
3 Dealers buy new passports to hide a horses past
4 Imported horses are not on NED
5 as the article says there will still be lots of horses without them
 
Last time we were stopped for a VOSA roadside check we had on board an 18h bay TB x Shire. The passport I gave them was for a blue & white mini shet - has "The Shetland Society" on the cover too, so not a bad clue. They very carefully looked at the horse (via the door in the living) gave me back the passport & assured me that all was in order!
 
Zebedee, like the story but checking a horse passport is not VOSA's job. Most Examiners would have problems telling the difference between a donkey and a zebra!!
What they were probably looking for was a link between the horse being carried and you. If the passport isn't in your name then life can get very interesting very quickly.
 
Just curious,what has all this red tape acheived???? apart from creating non jobs?
you know. passorts,ned, vosa, speedlimiters, tachographs,defra,the EU etc did we need any of it/them? are we better off safer or something...!!!!
 
Love it Zeb!

My coloured girl has been back in my name since Feb' 09; since then I have been trying to associate with her, using up a point each time, so costing me money to see if they've done their job! In spite of repeated phone calls to their office and emails, it's still not been sorted and in their eyes I don't own her; it really pees me off that it's still not working as it should, they've had plenty of time to get it right by now.
 
And it takes far too long to get new horses on there.
NONE of my last years babies (all now yearlings) are listed. And I have a 2 yr old that I am STILL waiting to see listed.
 
I hope I am one of the sample they question:rolleyes:

Of my horses past and present, there are still 2 on there which died 3 years ago (passports returned), and 5 with IHB passports which I am not allowed to "associate" myself with because the IHB didn't include my postcode on the information they provided to NED:confused:

So even though the name and address corresponds, because I know my postcode and the IHB doesn't, I'm not allowed to be their owner:rolleyes:

There is also a pony on there which is "mine" even though she isn't. We had her on loan at the time the passport regs came in, and I couldn't get hold of the owner to sign the passport application. The POI would not let me put the real owner on the application without her signature, so I put myself down as the owner and got the passport np.:rolleyes: Which makes a mockery of the whole thing.

A friend of mine has just bought a horse and I know for sure it is about 4 years older than the passport states, and the markings on the passport (IHB) are incomplete - the words do not correspond with the chart:confused:.

The best passport I've got is the CHAPS one for my coloured pony, which includes an actual photo of him - so sensible, but how many POIs do that?
 
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