Does that mean my only registration option is ISR? Just curious as I am new to breeding.
Have you told the stallion owner your foal was born and you need the breeding certificate for the inspection/registration? That’s the first step. A lot of stallion owners don’t issue the certificates until there is a live, wiggling, nursing, breathing foal on the ground. Some issue certificates with the shipment of semen and it is up to you to obtain and keep that certificate or at least request your vet keep the certificate for you to pickup with your mare.
If you’ve done all of that and you still haven’t received the certificate, you need to make a phone call to the stallion owner and be sure that all fees have been paid. If there were more than one collection sometimes there are extra fees owed by the Mare Owner that must be paid before the certificate will be issued. Clear those up and have a phone-to-phone or person-to-person chat with the stallion owner or semen broker as first course of action.
Otherwise, if that still hasn’t resolved the issue, then your next step is to go to the registry you were originally intending the foal to be bred and ask whether the Report of Mares Bred was submitted to the registry. If so and your mare is on there, you should then ask the registry if they can proceed with inspection/registration without you holding the breeding certificate. Most registries will figure out something that can be done.
But really, your first step is to ensure you are all paid up and in good standing and chat with the stallion owner or broker first.
I had to look into this last year as two of my foals were in jeopardy of not having their breeding certificates to present at their inspections. I contacted the WB registries in question and both were very willing to work with me and both said they would still register the foals. In the end I did get the breeding certificates.
Which registries is your mare approved with and is the stallion also on one of those registries rosters? If so I think this makes it so much easier.
This is obviously referring to warmblood inspection/registry etc, but for thoroughbreds, no breeding certificate = no registration, no exceptions. Jockey Club won’t intervene–you’re totally at the mercy of the stallion owner.
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Even the ISR won’t take the foal without a breeding certificate. The one poster ran it all down perfectly for you. If you have paid your money to the stallion owner, etc. and that owner has paid the stallion fees to the registry they represented to you has approved the stallion, then the registry will issue papers on the foal without a certificate from the owner–the owner will be in hot water with the registry and will get their butt in gear if you politely rattle the registry’s bell. It should all work out. Some stallion owners however (just like some mare owners) are not very good about paperwork unfortunately. But as the other poster pointed out, many stallion owners don’t even issue the breeding certificate until they know there is a viable living foal. Otherwise it is just wasted paperwork–I know I never issued them until the mare owner called. And by doing it that way, I made sure to get some info on newborn foals–otherwise you don’t often hear from most of these mare owners.
Definitely let the appropriate registry know if you didn’t get the certificate. They will usually step in and help out.
