Miniature Horse Stud Books
I am disappointed with their requirement of MORE money to access the AMHA studbook. I think AMHA and Obama have taken economic lessons together! After having been a member of APHA which includes free access to their studbook, it really irked me to pay AMHA more money to access their studbook. Go to this link to pay the AMHA money to access their studbook https://kumo.swcp.com/seth-bin/shop.pl/page=AMHAStudbookOnline.html/SID=1252257157.2176 It costs $25 per year.
AMHR allows you free access to their bloodlines. Go to this link www.horsestudbook.com It was free to register.
You can look up your horses pedigree, find photos of horses in the lineage, find any descendants of your horse, past ownership is available as well as current, look at show records, search by owner or by horse and you can even add pictures of horses they don't have in their records. You can look up how many descendants and find their show record and owners.
Remember that many times a horse will have a different name in AMHA from the name it has in AMHR.
Now, if you look at the pedigrees of our horses, they are fairly complete with pictures. I love knowing all I can about a specific horse and this studbook was a big help!
I encourage everyone out there to participate so we have even more information available about these special creatures! If your horse is not in the horsestudbook.com, please enter it.
To get started in the studbook. your first move to use this studbook is to register with them. Once you do that, they will email you with a user name and a password. Once you can log in, look on the buttons to the left. Find the section labeled “Go To” and click on horses. At the top of the page is a window that says “search” by it. I have searched and searched at this point!!!
Then, when you do pull up a horse, click in the square below the button that looks like this i (this is to the left of your horse’s name) and up will pull a new window with information about your horse. At the top are buttons to click that will show descendants, ancestors, pedigree (some with pictures), show history, and the past owners.
I was excited for some of our mares are new to us and we knew that some of their babies were doing well in the show ring, but I didn’t know the names of the babies who had these accomplishments, nor did I know who the owners were. So, I could potentially be standing at the Touch of Class show and be watching a grown baby from one of our mares and not know it. I want to see what has been produced and by crossing what bloodlines….I have a ton more information now to go on. Anyway, for some odd reason, it all thrilled me to gain this knowledge of the minis.
There are features about the free AMHR studbook that I like better than the studbook from AMHA that I have to pay for.
| Free AMHR studbook | AMHA studbook - $25 per year |
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Pictures with the pedigrees Give the history of registered owners Lists all show points Allows you to search for horses by prefix or if you know just part of a name Allows me to spend more money on hay. |
No pictures on pedigrees Only lists the current owner Only records if a horse has been champion or reserve champion You must know the correct and entire name of a horse to find him/her. Requires me to spend $25. C'mon members....call and request a free studbook |
