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Equine Law: Transferring Ownership Is More than Than Merely a Bill of Auction

Kjirsten Lee, HN's equine law columnist, outlines the ownership transfer procedure for a few of the major breed and show organizations — it's not as simple every bit just a bill of sale!

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Congratulations! You've just bought your starting time equus caballus. You signed the Neb of Sale (sale contract), paid the seller, and took your new horse home. Now you are organizing your paperwork to have everything ready for the next evidence season and you realize: y'all don't have any registration papers for your new horse. You contact the seller and inquire them to send over any registration information they have. One time they exercise, you discover you aren't sure how to transfer the horse into your proper name. What do you practice?

A horse tin be registered with multiple organizations, each with its own way of transferring ownership. We volition break downwards a few of these. The best way to find out how to transfer ownership in a specific organization is to contact the organisation directly or wait at their website and their rules.

The Jockey Society

I recently sold my OTTB mare. In the beak of sale, I agreed to accept all steps necessary to transfer ownership in any applicative registry. Since we only competed once this twelvemonth, I had only practical for a yearly Horse Identification Number from United states Dressage Federation (USDF), then the just ownership paperwork that needed changing was the mare'south Jockey Club registration. Lucky for me, The Jockey Lodge has one of the simpler processes for transferring ownership. On the dorsum of the mare's Jockey Order papers is a table to document ownership. I but wrote the name of the new owner, the appointment, and that it was a private sale, and signed my name. Done!

Note: this might not be acceptable for a transfer of a Thoroughbred racehorse who is going to continue racing or be used for breeding, where the new owner must have a Jockey Club membership. However, it is perfectly acceptable for transferring ownership of an off-runway Thoroughbred who is embarking on a new career every bit a sporthorse.

American Quarter Equus caballus Association (AQHA)

Transferring a registered Quarter Horse is washed through a class submitted to the AQHA forth with the applicable fee and original registration document. AQHA recommends checking with the seller to make certain they have the original registration certificate and a transfer report before exchanging whatsoever money. This due diligence is best do in all sales and purchases. The Association too has a helpful Often Asked Questions department on their website which addresses situations of multiple ownership or skipped buying transfers.

United States Equestrian Federation (USEF)

The USEF has a specific class that must exist completed to transfer ownership. The price is based on whether the horse has an active USEF recording, an inactive or expired recording, a USHJA registration only, or if the horse is existence transferred within a family. You lot can also request a proper name change for your horse.

Sidenote: If y'all are leasing a horse and the horse will exist shown under the lessee's ownership, the lessee must make full out a Lease Registration Grade. This form allows the lessee to appear as the bona fide owner for the elapsing of the lease, for purposes of inbound and competing at horse shows. The horse is returned to the true owner'south name at the end of the lease.

U.s.a. Dressage Federation (USDF)

The USDF has its own specific form for transferring buying. USDF also offers guidelines for what to do when you have a USDF Registration Certificate and alternatives for if the certificate is non available. If the certificate is not bachelor, the USDF will accept a copy of the brood papers registered in the proper noun of the new possessor, a copy of the breed papers showing the signature of the current USDF owner signing the equus caballus over to the new possessor, or a statement or beak of sale with the signature of the current owner stating that they have sold the horse. All of these must be submitted with the USDF ownership transfer grade.

If you lot have no registration document, no breed papers, and no signed neb of sale (you won't be in this category if you accept read my articles regarding when and why yous demand a contract!), the USDF volition have a USDF Transfer of Ownership Form II, which must be notarized.

United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA)

The USHJA charges $20 to transfer ownership. The USHJA uses the USEF Equus caballus Transfer Form and requires a copy of the bill of sale, signed by the final recorded owner(s), to be submitted to USHJA along with the form.

American Saddlebred Registry

The American Saddlebred Registry has a more than complicated transfer class to ensure a complete and accurate chain of ownership. Of note is the "Caution to Buyers" statement on the grade: "Buyers are advised to inspect a horse'south official Certificate of Registration prior to purchase to verify that the Seller'southward name is the last recorded possessor listed on the certificate, and that the information on the Certificate of Registration correctly identifies the equus caballus." The seller is responsible for recording and reporting all changes of buying to the Registry. The seller is also responsible for whatever fees, unless the seller and heir-apparent have an alternative understanding.

Disputes

If in that location is a dispute regarding ownership of a horse, most registries will refrain from getting involved until the dispute is resolved through agreement by the parties or a court activity. Buyers can avert lengthy and frustrating disputes by have the paperwork for transferring buying ready for the seller to sign at the time of purchase. A cautious buyer would then take those papers and send them to the advisable registry themselves. The required payment, if it is to be paid by the seller, may be taken out of the purchase cost.

Having this paperwork prepared may not always be practical. In such cases, a buyer should make sure the neb of sale includes a provision for transferring ownership, putting the total responsibility on the seller to complete the required forms and send them to the appropriate organization, forth with the necessary payment. If the contract a seller presents to a buyer does not include such a provision, the buyer should insist on adding information technology before signing and transferring any funds.

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Kjirsten Lee, J.D., is an equine attorney with rb LEGAL, LLC, in Aureate Valley, MN. She has written on topics such as the Horse Protection Act and utilise of drugs in racehorses, too as general legal issues that horse people may encounter. Yous can follow her on Twitter at @KMLee_Esq. Kjirsten and her OTTB Gobain, compete in dressage and eventing.

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