Register Your Horse with the British Palomino & Dilute Society

Although the British Palomino & Dilute Society no longer issues Equine Passports, you can still register your horse with the Society. Registration enters your animal into the either the Palomino register/studbook, Cremello register/studbook or Cream Dilute register/studbook.  

How to Register

You can register your horse in one of two ways:

Online – Complete the online registration form below and make your payment online.

By Post – Print and complete the Registration/Over-stamping Form and return it to us with payment by cheque.

What We Require

To complete your horse's registration, we require:

• Your horse's Equine Passport

• A DNA certificate

• 6 clear photographs of your horse, which can be emailed to us or supplied as printed photographs

• Your completed registration application and the appropriate fee

We recommend Animal Genetics for DNA testing. https://legacy.animalgenetics.eu/services/equine

Once we have received the required documentation, photographs and payment, we can process your horse's registration with the British Palomino & Dilute Society. If you are sending a passport to us for over-stamping / registration, we strongly recommend using either “Signed for” or “Special Delivery” post. 

Online Payment Option

1. Fill in online form and submit payment by clicking “add to cart”

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.

Printed Forms option

1. Print and fill in Registration/Over stamping form

2. Write cheque made payable to The 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 horse’s passport, form and DNA certificate, your cheque, photographs to the address on our contact page.

Additional Items:

Cost’s

Registration/Ovestamping Fee £35 for members

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.

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.