Stallion Licencing

All stallions aged 3 years and over must be fully licenced to be eligible for showing.
Licencing is carried out by a veterinary surgeon, who will check your stallion for the following:

  •  Soundness in wind and limb.
  •  Free of contagious diseases or infections.
  •  Correct jaw and teeth alignment.
  •  Having two fully descended and normal testicles.
  •  Being free of all limb abnormalities especially patella luxation.
  •  Free of any conformation abnormalities that would render him unsuitable for breeding (including: cataracts, ringbone, sidebone, stringhalt, laryngeal paralysis (roaring and whistling), bone spavin, and shivering).
How To Licence Your Stallion

 1. Request the BMHS office to send you the forms and a DNA kit if appropriate. Your stallion will need a DNA test so his markers can be included on the studbook records. 

 2. Arrange for your vet to examine your stallion and complete the forms sent to you from the office.
 
 3. Return the completed forms, the horse’s passport and the DNA test to the BMHS office. The passport will be updated and returned to you. 
If your horse has already had a DNA test and you have the results there is no need to have another one but you must include these results when sending the completed vet forms and passport to the office.

If your stallion passes his examination, we will amend his registration. If he fails and you decide to have him gelded, please notify us with veterinary proof, and we will amend his registration to the gelding register. If he fails but you wish to keep him entire we will place him on the un-licensed stallion register, and he will no longer be eligible for showing.

It is recommended that a stallion covers up to two mares in his second year and up to four mares in his third year.

Please record ALL your stallion’s coverings on his Stallion Breeding Report, which must be sent to the BMHS Head Office at the end of every year.

Visiting mares should also be given a Covering Certificate.

All required forms and current list of fees is on the 'Downloads' button on this website.



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