Tattoo with five numbers?

[grayarabians]

New horse at barn.
Presumed TB.
Tall 16+ hands
Bay gelding. Only white is dot on forehead.
12-13 years old as told to new owner.
Finally got a good look/ pic of tat.
72966
So not a TB? What then?

[No1]

How bad is the tattoo? Some TB tattoos are so terrible it easy to mistake letters and numbers.

Otherwise, Arabians are the only breed that tattoos with numbers only. Standard breds, Quarter Horses, TBs all have a letter or two in there somewhere.

[grayarabians]

Tattoo looks legible. Def five figures.
All look like numbers.
The horse looks all TB.
But guess he can’t be.
If QH - (Appendix) having a tat means he was meant to or did race?
I’ve never seen a racing QH as tall as he is.
Or his build.
I doubt I have pic posting privs on COTH.
I could send pic privately - email - whatever.

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[js]

Could it be an off the track Quarter Horse (not appendix)? I don’t know what their tattoos are like but worth checking.

[Simkie]

The first number for a TB tattoo will never be seven. They’re letter, then five numbers, and the first number is 0-5.

QHs will have a letter at the end. Could the last digit be G? That looks kinda like a 6.

Standardbred will have one or two letters, followed by numbers.

Arabs have all numbers, but six of them.

Perhaps this horse was tattooed with something unique as a way to identify it, but not tied to the “typical” registry templates?

[furlong47]

Could be an appendix. Their tattoos can take several formats and one of those is 5 or 6 numbers with no letter. Unfortunately I don’t know of any free lookups. AAHA requires you to have a membership https://www.americanappendix.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=395235&module_id=251551 and I’m not sure how you would even start with AQHA.

[Simkie]

You have to call the AQHA for tattoo lookup, but they’re free.

An appendix is a QH registered in the appendix book, not a separate registry.

I don’t think that appendix registry page is accurate with saying all of those tattoo types can be on an appendix horse. I think they’re listing all of the different formats for tattoos across registries. Here’s a page that breaks it down by breed:

http://www.horse-races.net/library/lip-tattoos.htm

[grayarabians]

[Calvincrowe]

Does Mexico tattoo their TBs differently? I had an OTTB Mexican raced whose tattoo was not quite right either, but too hard to read to be 100% sure, but we knew he was from Mexico originally so maybe??

[Simkie]

That leading number looks like a 4 here, not a 7. Do you have a pic of the left side of the lip? I wonder if there’s a letter there that’s faded.

Does he have ANY white on a heel somewhere? Even a few hairs counts as a marking.

I haven’t gotten to the markings here, but this horse is *42966

https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=8932078&registry=T&rbt=TB#completeStats

Anything ring a bell?

[K_2]

Foreign registered horses will not have a number, but an asterisk instead.

[No1]

Could also possibly be I12966. Barbarito, a horse who raced in Puerto Rico. There is a rescue that brings some of those back to the states.

https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=7425970&registry=T&rbt=TB

[No1]

Agree that a pic of the beginning of the tattoo would be helpful. It really doesn’t look like a 7 here.

[Simkie]

Another possible:

Solid Future, P22966, 2012 bay gelding, Rounded star slightly pointed to right on top. Cowlick slightly to left at top of eye level in star.

https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=9368343&registry=T&rbt=TB

Can you check the heels for any white and get us a pic of the face, showing the star?

Where are you? (General area of the country is fine.)

Do you have any history at all on this horse?

[furlong47]

The shape and style of the numbers definitely looks like a TB tattoo, and I agree the first number looks like a 4 and not a 7. I see 42966 but nothing comes up with those numbers, any letter (or asterisk) in front going back to the year 2000, and bay or dark bay gelding with white only on head.

[No1]

Or…I12956, Beaudacious: https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=7433101&registry=T

[K_2]

There are photos of this horse (Flashlight) on the Coady Photography site.

[furlong47]

This is the description for Flashlight… would likely be easy to confirm with microchip.

Small patch of white hairs above eye level. Left hind: white on heel on inside. Right hind: white on heel on inside. Reported to be microchipped with number 985101045188055. Double horizontal cowlick at top of eye level.

[grayarabians]

Tks. We’re in Houston area.
Horse had been in pasture about an hour east of us.
Will get more info.
Don’t think is TB Flashlight.