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Microchip Implant now a Requirement for Registration
In August 2015 The Jockey Club Board of Stewards voted to change the Principle Rules and Requirement of the American Stud Book to include the implant
of a microchip in foals as a registration requirement beginning January 1, 2017.
Thoroughbred horses being registered with The Jockey Club and the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (CTHS) beginning this year and thereafter, will require a microchip to be implanted to complete the registration requirements. The microchip number must be reported on the Registration Application.
In conjunction with the of cial markings registered with the Registry, the microchips will provide an effective means for con rming the identity of the registered Thoroughbred.
Once a live foal report has been received by The Jockey Club Registry a genetic typing kit, a preprinted Registration Application and a microchip will be sent to the person speci ed on the report.
Within 45 days the genetic sample should be sent
to the lab and the completed and signed Registration Application should be submitted to The Jockey Club Registry (with the set fee), along with a set of four colour photographs showing the colour and markings (or
lack of markings) on the head, legs and body and the implanted microchip number reported on the application.
Based on the successful ndings of the Alberta Thoroughbred Microchipping project, where an alternative microchip implant location is used (the
rostral interincive canal ie. “the nasal area”), the CTHS is recommending breeders nasally implant (rather than the nuchal ligament) Canadian –bred Thoroughbreds being registered with the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society. The alternative nasal implant location offers several bene cial reasons.
The new alternative microchip implant location in the nasal area was chosen for several reasons; rst and foremost the ease of scanning the nose and in-turn the safety of horse and handler. There is no confusion as to the location of a microchip implanted in the nasal area, compared to the “neck area”. There is a next
to negligible loss and rate of migration of a microchip implanted in the nasal area.
If a Canadian-bred horse is microchipped in the nuchal ligament, after 2017, it will not affect the eligibility of Canadian-bred or Provincial status of that horse, granted that horse has met all Canadian-bred and provincial program requirements.
It is the hope that Canadian-bred horses will have nasal microchips and be recognized as Canadian-bred horses internationally through the distinction of a nasal microchip implant.
Alberta Thoroughbred Microchipping Project for more info visit CTHS National website
This microchip
is smaller than traditional microchips and is delivered with a user friendly
14 gauge syringe style applicator
Above: Datamars Slim Microchip T-SL is the microchip being used by the Jockey Club Click Here for manufacturer’s information
National CTHS General Manager Caitlin Grguric displays an ISO 11785 compliant microchip reader. It is not necessary for breeders to purchase a reader. The CTHS of ces will have readers available to lend out to breeders on a limited basis.
The Jockey Club Registry is the of cial Registrar for all Thoroughbred horses in North America and Puerto
Rico. The CTHS is a national breed organization to assist breeders of Thoroughbred horses in Canada and also determines the requirements for Canadian-bred status of foals. The CTHS National of ce is located in Toronto, Ontario
and maintains the breeder membership roster for Canada, compiles statistics and represents Canadian Thoroughbred breeders nationally and internationally.
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