Crap.
I was not expecting that!
It’s so disappointing! Back to square one.
Can you register a horse with USEF without a microchip number?
Not since December 2019.
I searched on the EMLT site and it came back with this saying to contact the microchip company as follows: For more information regarding microchip 276098106076886 , contact the entity shown below.
For more information please call: 800.434.2843
or visit: https://microchipidequine.com/
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I was able to find out that the starting 3 numbers means he was chipped in Germany. I’d try the Hanoverian Verband.
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Agree. Or whatever the German horse federation is.
A number of years ago when I was trying to ID a horse via the microchip, someone on here who lived in Holland (or had) was somehow able to do a search on the chip and ID him. I couldn’t manage it.
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The issue is his US show name. He was imported in 2016/2017 but shown under a different name, because there’s no record of Gaijin. He has a European record a mile long.
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It’s going to be hard to track if the chip is not USEF registered. Likely it didn’t show at rated shows in the US, but I also had a weird situation come up recently where I thought I had all the info and could.not.find. the horse in the USEF database. Long story short they had mistyped the microchip by one number when they registered it, AND all my paperwork for it had no space in the name but the USEF registration did, and that threw the search function right off. It drove me insane for a good week before I sorted it out by basically dumb luck.
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Does the eventing association (USEA?) have a separate registry?
It would be hard to believe that a horse campaigned by the director of the Hannoverian state stud would be imported and not shown here.
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I even did my usual sleuthing using his breeding that I found with his European name and nothing in the USEF database lines up.
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He may have been shown after being imported, but not after December 2019. Or not shown recognized. SoCal has a fairly robust selection of non-USEF shows.
Stuff happens. People sell horses. People run out of money, or at least horse show money. Horses go lame. Names get changed. Plans get changed. Kids go off to school.
The horse isn’t all that old (14?). You wouldn’t expect him to be retired or semi-retired or whatever unless something happened.
Does your trainer have any intel?
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He was ridden and shown by a junior.
He wasn’t her only horse.
She boarded/rode at an eventing barn in Malibu.
When she went to college, her wealthy parents dispersed her string of horses, he was given to a guy who kept goats in Moorpark. He was living in a goat pasture on a hill with no shelter.
There were no nail holes on his feet, so he’d been barefoot for a while.
The guy has been incommunicado since being paid for the horse. He had the horse’s papers but hasn’t provided them.
That’s all she knows.
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If the horse was evented, that’s different. I only know about the requirements for h, j, and eq. So, if eventing does not require a chip, or hasn’t until recently, this horse could have been registered with USEF as an eventer under a different name and not have been required to provide the chip number.
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I don’t think chips (or USEF recording???) are currently needed for eventing up to a certain level, though that’s about to change.
There are two eventing barns in Malibu and one in Topanga listed in this directory for USEA area VI: https://areavi.org/directory/barn-directory/
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I’m not finding a way to search a horse thru USEA at all prior to 2020.
@Peggy does California have any membership databases to search?
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I just tried PCHA, LAHJA, and SCHSA (what SFHJA turned into) with no success, using the registered name. But lots of horses aren’t registered or recorded as you only need it for points, and many people who want points opt for annual only.
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Ah ok, here if you registered and got a number at all, the horse would still be searchable under the local organization, just shown as expired.
If you think this horse evented in the California area, you might have more luck finding his history by networking into eventing groups in California on FB or something like that (or even here on the COTH Eventing forum). You are right, this horse was probably doing something after he was imported. I don’t think that contacting the breed association in Germany will lead you to any of that history. Good luck with this! Handsome animal.
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She just posted there.
