can anyone help me with getting a registered name from a tattoo number? a friend of mine has two TB’s rescued within the last few weeks.
thanks in advance.
Do you have the tatoo numbers?
here’s one of the numbers…
G7155 - he’s a chestnut
i’ll get the other number!
thanks!!
Too short. You’re missing a number. TB tattoos are one letter and five numbers.
Nope, not always. We’ve had 4 letters before. It’s a letter followed by 4 or 5 numbers. I have a current two year old that’s a four number boy. The numbers are correlated to how early in the year the breeder turned in the Live Foal report. My colt is an early January foal and has a letter, zero, then 3 numbers.
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Too short. You’re missing a number. TB tattoos are one letter and five numbers.[/QUOTE]
First of all you have to tell me that do you have the tatoo numbers?
anyone help??
here are the two tattoo numbers…
G7155- chestnut gelding
W3144- grey gelding (could be a V, instead)
thanks!!
Are you sure these are TBs? I have never ran across a 4 number tattoo on a TB. Even if that is possible what are the chances of you have two of them with 4 numbers?
Could they be standardbreds?
I ran them through USTA and they ain’t Standardbreds. The first number matches to a bay mare (1988) and the second to a bay horse (2000) and he is freezebranded at any rate.
Whoa that was freaky (check out the post time.)
yes
they are TBs!
Aren’t racing QH’s (who can be 7/8ths TB) a letter and 4 numbers?
I believe racing QH’s are four letters with a number at the end. However, I think Appendixes can have lip tattoos with a letter at the beginning. I don’t know much about it though.
i found this info…
“An Appendix lip tattoo usually has four or five numbers and a letter. Sometimes there will be five numbers, but usually there are four or five numbers and a letter. Example 6465A. A Thoroughbred lip tattoo usually has a letter and four numbers but can vary and have five numbers. The letter is at the first of the TB lip tattoo.”
I’ve been told that there is a year threshold regarding 4 letters vs. 5 letters, given that the 26 letter alphabet could be repeated in a horses life time… (Although I think it’s designed for “non-horse” people to discern a really OLD horse from a really YOUNG horse…LOL)
If “A” starts in 1971, 1997 is when it repeats again, which is supposedly when 5 numbers started, I think?
This could be pure conjecture, but for what it’s worth… I hope it helps. If I’m TOTALLY off base, let me know!
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Nope, not always. We’ve had 4 letters before. It’s a letter followed by 4 or 5 numbers. I have a current two year old that’s a four number boy. The numbers are correlated to how early in the year the breeder turned in the Live Foal report. My colt is an early January foal and has a letter, zero, then 3 numbers.[/QUOTE]
How long is his registration number?
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How long is his registration number?[/QUOTE]
All of the registration numbers are 7 digits. The first two are the year (which is changed to the corresponding alpha when tattooed), then 5 numbers, as TJC assumes there will always be a 5 digit foal crop. The number corresponds with when the foal report is submitted. So, my 2yo’s registration number is 0700XXX (he was foaled 1/16), and his tattoo is K0XXX. They drop one zero as being redundant (they use a minimum of 4 numbers, tho).
I have never seen just 4 digits after a letter, always 5, and have seen double 00’s at the beginning of a tattoo. Curious.
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I have never seen just 4 digits after a letter, always 5, and have seen double 00’s at the beginning of a tattoo. Curious.[/QUOTE]
But did you see the 00’s before three numbers or two? Probably just 2, which brought the total up to 4 numbers. Having said that, I’ve seen some weird tattoos and mistakes are made by the person applying them on occassion. Anyway, I used to work for TJC, and that was how it was done while I was there. I can’t imagine they’ve changed things in the last few years.
