What are the new rules about double APHA/AQHA registration?

Question

I thought i heard that the rules for APHA/AQHA registration had changed so that some paints could be double registered at QH's? Is this true.. can someone direct me towards some info about this. Thanks

Answer 1

If a stallion/mare is what was known as a crop out (top much white for AQHA and two reg AQHA parents) when it was registered as a Paint, you can go back and after a lot of paperwork, DNA testing and expense (approx $500 - $1000 depending on her age) and get then you could double register the foal. How a lot of the horses got papers in both associations was that AQHA relaxed the white rule. So the minimum white horses would get AQHA and APHA papers. This happened for several years. THEN AQHA did away with the white rule completely. APHA then decided to split the registries into 3 catagories 1 Paint parent + color = regular registry, 1 paint parent + solid = solid bred paint registry, two quarter parents + color = breeding stock. There are a lot of paint horses now getting their quarter papers, but it is not cheap.

I recently purchased a foal that is double registered.  They used to be worth a ton of money, but now are becoming much more reasonably priced.  It's nice to be able to rack up points in both APHA and AQHA.

Answer 2

Basically, if one parent was a registered Quarter Horse, than the foal can be registered as a Quarter Horse.  And for the exact rule of AQHA...

205(d) White Markings: A horse having white markings with

underlying light skin beyond any one of the following described lines

shall be eligible for registration by AQHA only if it is parentage verified

through DNA typing the offspring, its sire and its dam. Breeders

should be aware that the American Quarter Horse, while long recognized,

identified and promoted as a solid-colored horse, can and does

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occasionally produce offspring with overo paint characteristics. Such

markings are uncharacteristic of the breed and are considered to be

undesirable traits. The following notification shall be placed on registration

certificates of horses exceeding these marking limitations:

“This horse has white markings designated under AQHA rules

as an undesirable trait and uncharacteristic of the breed.”

(1) A line parallel with the ground drawn around the front

leg at the point halfway between the point of the elbow (the center

of the olecranon tuberosity or proximal epiphysis of the ulna) and

the protrusion on the back of the knee (the accessory carpal bone or

lateral styloid process).

(2) A line parallel with the ground at the center of the

gaskin on the hind legs. (The center of the gaskin shall be defined as

an imaginary point on the front of the gaskin equidistant between

the stifle joint and the center of the hock.) The top point of reference

to be the bony protrusion on the inside (medial) of the stifle

region (technically known as the medial condyle of the tibia) and

the most prominent bony protrusion at the top and inside of the

hock (technically known as the medial malleolus of the tibia).

(3) A line around the horse’s neck immediately behind the

poll and through the midpoint of the throat latch.

(4) Within an area described as two inches on either side

of the ventral midline, beginning at a point midway between the

front legs and extending to, and including, the sheath and udder.

(5) Additionally, there is allowed a single area of white

markings with underlying light skin, such that it can be completely

covered with a disk one inch in diameter, either free standing on the

horse’s body or being a portion of white marking extending past the

above prescribed lines.

(6) Areas of white, pink or mottled skin located on the

horse’s genitalia, including the sheath or udder, in the axillary region

(armpits) or inside the hind legs, including the inner surface of the

hindquarters up to and including the ventral surface of the tail, and

which are not readily visible when the horse is in a standing position

are not considered white markings as described in (d) above.

Answer 3

I had checked with the AQHA awhile ago to see about double registering my solid-bred APHA as a QH (he's 7/8 QH), but was told it wasn't possible...if there is a new rule I'd be curious to hear about it.