Tattoo Info Help

[chelz421]

We’ve got a cute 15.1 hand bay gelding with a fortune cookie shaped star on his forehead who is said to be an OTTB. He’s estimated to be 8 or 9 from Vet records. His name was changed at some point to “Send Noods” , so we aren’t sure what his JC name was originally. The previous barn we purchased him from didn’t have any luck reading his tattoo either.

It’s a fun little mystery we are trying to solve. Does his tattoo look like he could possibly be an appendix instead of a TB?

Photo contrast increased to see his tattoo better. He is not a dark bay.

[chelz421]

[NancyM]

That does not look like a TB tattoo to me. It should start with a letter of the alphabet, and have more numbers after that for a TB.

[furlong47]

Most of it is actually clear (?2175) but I do think it may be an appendix tattoo. TB would be a letter followed by 5 numbers. This looks like either a letter and 4 numbers or just 5 numbers. I did search the last 12ish years for TBs for a partial tattoo with those numbers, bay gelding with a star, and no results.

[chelz421]

I had a similar thought too. He was being sold as an OTTB, but his tattoo seems like it would be a digit off no matter how you try to see it. His numbers seem clear enough still if he is an appendix we could find some info!

[trubandloki]

Silly question, didn’t they start mircochipping track bound TBs at some point? When was that?

[chelz421]

2017. If only it was sooner.