The horse’s name. The year of the horse’s birth. The horse’s color. The horse’s sex characteristics (not strictly male/female — includes classifications like gelding, colt, etc. ) The horse’s sire and dam. The sire is its father and the dam is its mother. While the allpedigree. com database is very extensive and dates back to the 1800s in some cases, not all horses will be in it. Unregistered horses are especially unlikely to appear.
Your horse is at the far left and its oldest ancestors are at the far right. You can click any horse’s name on this page to view its pedigree.
www. aqha. com — the site of the American Quarter Horse Association[2] X Research source www. aqha. com www. morganhorse. com — the site of the American Morgan Horse Association[3] X Research source www. morganhorse. com www. americanappendix. com/ — the site of the American Appendix Horse Association[4] X Research source A good list of other breed association sites is available here. [5] X Research source
You will need to create an account to use the registry.
The list of registries mentioned above (available here once again) is good for finding smaller, more specialized breed registries.
If the tattoo starts with a letter, the horse is a thoroughbred. The letter corresponds to the year of its birth. Click here for a guide to which letter matches up with each year. If the tattoo starts with an asterisk, the horse is an appendix horse (a cross between a thoroughbred and a quarter horse).
As an example, Shire horses will often use the name of the barn or farm they were born at as part of their names.
