Thanks! I assumed fischer and SAP were farm prefixes, I had no idea they were businesses. And I had completely forgotten about Horsewear. Also, Fleeceworks!
Here’s a screen shot from the World Cup results for show jumping in April 2000. Pretty hilarious to see all the dot com companies.
Similar thing happened to me. My horse’s USEA name (and his only show name ever) is different than his JC name so when I went through the FEI registration to get him a passport, I also dutifully put down his birth name as his JC name and his current name as his USEA name. I then got an email back saying that I couldn’t register him under his USEA name because it is different than his birth name unless I paid the fee. Come to find out that his FEI registration has his USEA name as his “birth name” and JC name as “current/complete name.” 
Nations with a horse racing tradition: USA, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand have plenty of TB horses to turn into sport horses. Most European nations don’t race TBs and all horses have to be microchipped and passported. So FEI name changes are not such a problem.
On the other hand, I can’t get my head around naming multiple animals with the same name and differentiated by a number e.g. Arko III
Except Jockey Club papers have no bearing on the actual name of a horse. They don’t even prove ownership. For example, JC papers in Colorado mean nothing. A brand inspection card or permanent travel card are the only proof of ownership accepted by the state. The same is true in brand inspection states. So the racing name is literally meaningless in the overall actual history of the horse.
Thus, I would state JC paper names are about as good as the paper on which they are printed. In my case I toss the JC papers put the brand inspection name on the FEI passport, which, of course is the name I chose.
I would say the FEI, being Eurocentric, has rules focused only on one part of the world and does not account for laws and rules in other parts.
That will be pretty interesting for the Brand Inspection states, including California. A microchip is like a license plate. Without an integrated system across all entities, Jockey Club, USEF, the federal government, a chip is simply a mark from some person at some time. Does that mean a JC owner can come back and claim a horse that is chipped for FEI/USEF? Remember, it is up to the owner to register the microchip number in the registry. There is no common database.
Microchipping is only as good as the database accessibility and adaptation.
You can attach any identity you want to a TBs microchip, for show purposes (not for racing).
The way it goes: the horse is doing bigger things and needs a USEF or FEI passport. The vet scans the horse to see if it already has a chip. Oh, yay, it does! One less thing to do. You record that number on the passport and whatever show name the owner gives you. Boom, that horse has whatever show identity you want, attached the microchip it already has. No one cares. USEF and the FEI don’t cross reference microchips to every breed registry.
Also, more common than you might think to have more than one microchip in a horse. Some (older) horses had the old style microchips implanted and had to have a newer one put in. Microchips migrate, and you can find the breed registry chip on first scan and they pop in a new one for show purposes, etc.
This is what I did…negotiated the price down 2K with the agreement that I’d use their prefix on the horse’s FEI passport. It still hurt to shell out the $1250 though!
Sent in my FEI passport application last week.
Heard back from USEF, FEI passport was approved with the name different from his breed passport name.
I was very surprised and had prepared myself for his name to change back to his breed passport name. There was no way I was gonna pay $1250 for the name.
Again, my case was different, this horse has no prior competition name or competition experience other than the one I gave him, and I’m the only one who has ever competed him.
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