Registration
Registration enters your animal into the either the Palomino register/studbook, Cremello register/studbook or Cream Dilute register/studbook.
You can register your horse by printing and filling in the registration/over stamping form and paying via cheque, or by using the online form and payment option. We require a DNA certificate to be issued with your order. We recommend using Animal Genetics. https://legacy.animalgenetics.eu/services/equine
Using Online Payment Option
1. Fill in online form and submit payment by clicking “add to cart” below
Horses and ponies competing in registered Palomino and Cream Dilute classes must be registered and have their passports overstamped by the British Palomino & Dilute Society.
Once you have filled in this form and paid for registration you must send the order number with:
your passport
DNA certificate
6 photographs
To the British Palomino Society office. (Photographs can be emailed to the registrar at office@thebritishpalominosociety.co.uk).
The 6 photographs should be good quality, taken in good light of the complete view of the animal on hard ground (two from each side, one from the front and one from the rear). If you are posting the photographs, computer printouts will be accepted but only if they are clear, not distorted in any way and are printed onto good quality glossy/matt photographic paper only. Each printed photograph must have the D.O.B of the animal and the name of Sire and Dam written on the back
We recommend using Animal Genetics https://legacy.animalgenetics.eu/services/equine
NOTE: The British Palomino Society will not issue any refunds if the passport is not sent in for overstamping
2. Either print photographs, or email them to office@thebritishpalominosociety.co.uk (quoting your order number*)
3. Post your horse’s passport and DNA certificate, with a note with your order number*.
*Your order number can be found on your email order confirmation.
Using Printed Forms option
1. Print and fill in Registration/Overstamping form
2. Write cheque out to British Palomino Society
3. Either print photographs, or email them to office@thebritishpalominosociety.co.uk (quoting your horse’s registered name and DOB)
4. Post your horses’s passport, form and DNA certificate, your cheque, photographs to the address on our contact page.
Horses and ponies competing in registered Palomino and Dilute classes must be registered and have their passports overstamped by the British Palomino & Dilute Society.
Once you have filled in this form and paid for membership & Overstamping, you must send the order number with:
DNA certificate direct from genetic testing centre - we recommend Animal Genetics https://legacy.animalgenetics.eu/services/equine
Passport
Photographs
To the British Palomino Society office. (Photographs can be emailed to the registrar at office@thebritishpalominosociety.co.uk).
The 6 photographs should be good quality, taken in good light of the complete view of the animal on hard ground (two from each side, one from the front and one from the rear). If you are posting the photographs, computer printouts will be accepted but only if they are clear, not distorted in any way and are printed onto good quality glossy/matt photographic paper only. Each printed photograph must have the D.O.B of the animal and the name of Sire and Dam written on the back
NOTE: The British Palomino Society will not issue any refunds if the passport is not sent in for overstamping
Adding or changing microchip passport details for animals passported or registered with the British Palomino Society. The registrar will also update the Central Equine Database with the new microchip details.
Once you have filled in this form and paid for your microchip to be updated, you must send the order number with your passport to the British Palomino Society office (address can be found on the contact page of the website).
“From October 2020 it will be mandatory for all owners to microchip their horses, ponies and donkeys.” - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/compulsory-microchipping-to-improve-horse-welfare
NOTE: The British Palomino Society will not issue any refunds if the passport is not sent in for updating.
Before sending your passport into the office for overstamping check you have enclosed:
Registration form OR order number from the website
DNA Certificate
6 photographs (either printed or emailed)
FEES
Palomino Registration/Ovestamping Fee £35 for members (+P&P).
Cream Dilute Registration/Ovestamping Fee: £35 for members (+P&P).
Use of a Non-Registered Prefix : £5*
* Only used where the Owner is NOT the Breeder of the animal and where the prefix is not registered with this Society.
Postage costs: Special Delivery Guaranteed please add an extra £8 OR Signed For Delivery please add an extra £3
PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU ARE SENDING A PASSPORT TO US FOR OVERSTAMPING/REGISTRATION, WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND USING EITHER 'SIGNED FOR' OR 'SPECIAL DELIVERY' POST.
Loaned / Leased Horses
Loaned and leased animals can be exhibited in affiliated BPS classes, our Royal classes and our National Championships as long as the recorded owner or exhibitor is a fully paid up BPS member. Permission must be sought from the owner to submit a sample for DNA testing and to overstamp the horse / pony if not already done.
INSPECTIONS
The British Palomino Society no longer inspects equines in order for them to be eligible for registration. Instead a DNA test will be performed to ensure they are palomino or cream dilute.
RULES FOR REGISTRATION OF PALOMINOS & Cream Dilutes
1: The breeder of an animal for the purposes of registration is the bona fide owner of its dam at the time of its birth.
2: Any person making application for the registration of an animal with the Society shall be deemed to have agreed to conform with the standing Rules for Registration.
3: Transfers of ownership of a registered animal must be notified to the Secretary within 30 days by the purchaser. This is done by returning the BPS passport or a BPS Transfer of Ownership Form, to the BPS office with the appropriate fee. The passport or transfer form must be signed by the seller to confirm the sale.
4: Any person may register a Prefix with the Society. This he may use for all animals bred by him, subject to acceptance by the Central Prefix Register. No person may change the registered name of an animal.
5: For an animal already registered in another recognised stud book or register to be acceptable for registration with the Society, application for registration must be made in the name registered in such stud book or register together with its stud book or register reference; and that name will appear as the name of the animal when registered with the Society. The other Society passport should accompany the registration application form.
The British Palomino Society Statement of Zootech recognition after 1 January 2021.
From 1 January 2021, trade with the EU will be on ‘third country’ terms.
As it currently stands, because of the requirement to know the full pedigree of all equines within our registers this means the British Palomino Society is no longer able to extend breeding programmes into EU Member States, nor are we be able to register animals that are not kept in the UK. We would remind you that our passports are ID passports and not breeding passports.