Knowledgeable people in APHA rules?

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this is in reference to the question about breeding stock Paints. My question is I need someone to clarify for me. I thought the new rule was AQHA was going to start offering ways for breeding stock and crop out Paints to receive AQHA papers after either earning a certain amount of points or time. I thought I read something about this in the AQHA Journal. I could be completely wrong as my brain sometimes makes stuff up just to confuse me....lol If anyone knows any details on this and could straighten me out, I would appreciate it and If anyone knows about the double registering of both APHA and AQHA what are the qualifications. Thanks so much....Dazed and confused...he he he

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Answer 1

First I heard of it I would like to know too! I have a paint only she is solid. she is registered in APHA. I want to breed her next year.

Answer 2

Here's the answer, but you aren't going to like it.

AQHA changed their rules on accepting horses with excessive white only.   They now will accept ANY color horse into their registry as long as the horse has either two parents that are registered AQHA or one parent registered AQHA and one registered Thoroughbred.  There are some horses out there from that sort of breeding with a huge amount of white that look exactly like you'd expect a Paint to look, and they used to be refused entry into AQHA so Paint took them.  Now AQHA accepts them and allows them full registered status.

Paint changed at the same time and now will not accept "crop-out" AQHA horses into their registry.  To be a registered Paint now means your only options are to have at least one parent registered APHA and the other registered AQHA or Thoroughbred, or else both parents registered APHA.

Some horses are still double registered.  Why?  Because once AQHA accepted any color horse with both parents AQHA, all of a sudden there were tons of horses in APHA that could be put back in the Quarter horse association.  Some horses suddenly became both Paints and Quarter horses.  Therefore they can be bred to another registered Quarter horse and produce foals that are double registered.  There is a big value in good quality foals like this as they can now show in both associations, and raise foals in both associations.  If I owned a mare that was double registered, and she had a solid colored baby, I'd probably only spend the money to register it AQHA.  If it was colored I'd put it in both registeries.

AQHA absolutely will NOT accept any horse that is not 100% AQHA.  If you can go back in a APHA horse's papers, and find that each and every horse there was a registered Quarter horse (even if they had been refused registration at first due to excess color) then you can have them put into AQHA if you pay the fee to have all the relatives registered.  But if there is a single horse in their ancestory that does not go directly back to AQHA then they will never be registered Quarter horses.

It had nothing to do with points or color or time spent.  It has to go back to what their direct family ties were, and whether they were documented AQHA horses.

I hope I didn't leave you too confused.  It is a tricky topic.  Many of us with solid colored Paints would like to have them put into the AQHA registry, but it just isn't going to happen.  And that isn't likely to change.

Answer 3

lol i like how you changed experts to knowledgeable....

i sent you the pic on your email...the vet just sent it to me....she's sent it to heaps of equine specialist people to try and find out what did ti

am i meant to be joining in the search...? i'll just be the support team...COME ON eqquus and zig you guys can find whatever you're looking for on APHA.com...COME ON (*cheers*)

WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo go E

Answer 4

good job eqquus!!!! You actually posted this in the right section!! hehe

I believe I have heard of this too, but I'm not sure of the details of it. I'm interested so I'm going to try to do a little research if I can... I'll be back!!

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Haven't found anything on it yet... Maybe I imagined it too? LOL

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