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Location: NC | I have two now that I need to send in. My reasons are I am lazy, cheap and forgetful......  |
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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | HorsesNHarleys - 2014-02-25 8:46 AM
I have two now that I need to send in. My reasons are I am lazy, cheap and forgetful......
^^This, i have 2 i need to transfer, i just think about it at the worst times (driving, riding, work meeting lol), plus i've let my AQHA membership lapse and i don't wanna pay the membership fee  |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I have two. One horse will die on our place so I don't see a need for it. The other one I don't have plans to sell, but I do need to get his put into my name... it's been 8 years... I think I've procrastinated enough!
They're also both geldings so I'm not worried about any offspring papers. |
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Location: Kansas | I have one that I need to send it, not because of time....just because I keep forgetting LOL.
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Who Wants to Trade?
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| On the geldings, did you get them from the last recorded owner or is there a gap there?
I know sometimes I'll look up an old horse and realize it is still in my name....sometimes 13+ years later. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | kuhlmann - 2014-02-25 8:19 AM On the geldings, did you get them from the last recorded owner or is there a gap there?
I know sometimes I'll look up an old horse and realize it is still in my name....sometimes 13+ years later.
The first gelding (one that is never leaving) is still in the breeder's name. The second owner (we're third) never transfered them into their name... that's part of the reason for his never getting done.
The second gelding is still in the previous owner's name (they just live 15 minutes away and I see them on a regular basis). His wouldn't be any pain to do. |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | The mare I sold last year, I owned for several years. Didn't transfer papers into my name until AFTER I sold her. I would have just handed them the papers, but I had filled them out already. I was considered the 2nd owner, even though I was the 5th because nobody prior had transfered papers out of the original breeders name. I actually used BHWs help to track down a number for the breeder because they had never signed off on the reg. papers.
The mare I have now, I've had since Feb. '13. I still haven't sent her paperwork in.
Shoot, I still haven't sent in our puppy registration for our mastiff.
I'm lazy, I guess. Get busy. Forgetful. I have no good reason. |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | kuhlmann - 2014-02-25 7:43 AM How many of you own registered horses and have not transferred their papers into your name?
If you do, why haven't you transferred? Cost? Time? Desire?
I transfer all my broodmares and prospects ASAP.
I am however, guilty of having papers on some recip mares here in my registration paper book that I never bothered to transfer though. I know. Bad me.
But most of the recips I have, while they are good momma's, aren't anything that should ever be bred for their own babies anyway. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I have 2 I haven't transferred and have owned both for over a year now. One has pretty blue papers that I don't want to give up for the ugly new ones. The other one I just haven't thought about it. I have another one that I finally transferred after a year and a half, and meant to get her name changed but haven't done it yet. I don't usually change registered names, but hers is so bad I will NOT use it to enter her. I'm a procrastinator... |
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  More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I transfer everything right away. Its a huge pet peeve of mine when people don't transfer. |
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Who Wants to Trade?
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| rockinas - 2014-02-25 8:41 AM
kuhlmann - 2014-02-25 7:43 AM How many of you own registered horses and have not transferred their papers into your name?
If you do, why haven't you transferred? Cost? Time? Desire?
I transfer all my broodmares and prospects ASAP.
I am however, guilty of having papers on some recip mares here in my registration paper book that I never bothered to transfer though. I know. Bad me.
But most of the recips I have, while they are good momma's, aren't anything that should ever be bred for their own babies anyway.
I'd bet my favorite boots that the recip I just got at Heritage had papers at one time. She is too well made and too nice not to have been. Her front legs aren't anything I'd ever send down the track, but her body screams it.
Everyone who knows me knows I won't own a grade horse....and yet, here I sit, the proud owner of a pregnant grade mare LOL! |
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Location: The edge of no where | kuhlmann - 2014-02-25 7:43 AM How many of you own registered horses and have not transferred their papers into your name?
If you do, why haven't you transferred? Cost? Time? Desire?
I rarely transfer a horse. Typically I have geldings, I don't do AQHA shows, so there's really no point in bothering with it. What's the benefit? I've sold lots of them without ever transferring the papers. I'll give the signed transfer form from whoever I bought the horse from to the people I sell it to along with the papers.
Mares are a different story. I just don't see the point in bothering with AQHA on a gelding. |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | rockinas - 2014-02-25 8:41 AM kuhlmann - 2014-02-25 7:43 AM How many of you own registered horses and have not transferred their papers into your name?
If you do, why haven't you transferred? Cost? Time? Desire?
I transfer all my broodmares and prospects ASAP.
I am however, guilty of having papers on some recip mares here in my registration paper book that I never bothered to transfer though. I know. Bad me.
But most of the recips I have, while they are good momma's, aren't anything that should ever be bred for their own babies anyway.
Recip mares are a different story though IMO. They are baby machines. |
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Fire Ant Peddler
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| I transfer everything immediately. If I am seriously looking at a horse for sale I check Aqha, Apha and if the papers are not in order I move on, so someone lost a sale. I have looked at one particular horse for several months and papers have not been transferred in over year so lost interest. This eliminates any problems with Aqha and Apha. I quit having to buy Excedrine fro the headaches |
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | I am a obsessive compulsive about papers. I makes sure they are all in order before I buy a horse and the first thing I do after I unload it from the trailer and get it settled in on our place is complete and mail in the transfer form.
If its a foal of ours, I do the registration before 6 months of age. Then I worry and worry that the papers will get lost in the mail. |
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Location: Florida | Just sent in my transfer papers yesterday. I bought the horse over a year ago just forget to send them in! |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | I need to transfer my new broodmare, BUT I found out the last time I bought a mare that if I drive to Amarillo and go in to the headquarters I can have the entire thing done in 30 minutes instead of 6 weeks. Thus I have held onto her papers for three weeks and we're headed up that way during spring break (I have family there). I'll get it done there and then send a copy on to the stallion farm. It'll be faster. She had been bought/sold a few times and I was given the original transfer sheet from the breeder.
I do have a gelding I got from my uncle I haven't transferred. Probably should. It wouldn't be hard. I just haven't yet. I'm on top of anything I'm going to breed, but should def. get him done. I guess I haven't to some degree yet because Uncle is family so I don't worry too much about it. I have no plans to sell or show the gelding either. |
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Location: Oklahoma | We just went to the AQHA world show and transferred 7 of my horses all at one time there. One of the horses I had owned for ten years. He was just a gelding that I used for playdays and stuff, we never saw a need to transfer him. We ended up selling him without transfering because the people around here dont care much for the papers anyway, Any mare that I will be competing on or breeding I will transfer, along with geldings that will actually be showing or something, But usually we just dont see a need to with some horses |
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Location: Kentucky | CYA Ranch - 2014-02-25 9:46 AM I transfer everything right away. Its a huge pet peeve of mine when people don't transfer.
Ditto. I think almost every horse I've sold with the exception of a colt I just sold are still in my name. That annoys the crap out of me. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Everything is in our name ... except a couple colts by our stallion we bought to place. One is sold and leaves in a couple weeks - the other one is possibly sold. so those two knowing I wouldnt' have them long - I did not transfer.
Everything else on our place is transferred.
I have been trying to track down a gelding we had for 10 years ... he is still in our name after 5 years of selling him... sigh, sure wish I know who owned him! |
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Location: ND | I'm guilty of not always transferring. I've owned my Appi for 6 years & he's still in the last owners name. In his case I know he will NEVER be sold, he will be with someone in my family for the rest of his life. And being my only Appi I haven't felt the need to get a membership & transfer him or pay the non member fees to get it done. If I end up with another Appi at some point I'll probably transfer them both but for one horse just haven't done it. All my QH's have been transferred as soon as I buy them though since I have a membership there. |
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Location: Randolph, Utah | I'm guilty! I've got transfer papers all ready to go on 2 mares just need to write the check and mail. There is a good chance they'll both be mommas at some point so I need to get them done.
My dad bought a gelding a year ago and I'm sure he'll never be transferred, mostly because he's a lifer at our place. |
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| We transfer everything to our name. When we got married we bought a joint lifetime membership, and I'm so glad that we did. I've bought several horses that came with a transfer, and I always worry that I'm going to have to jump through hoops to get things straightened out and get them in our name. Usually what I buy is for future resale, and as a seller I want to make sure paperwork is in order before I sell a horse. I haven't looked up any of the horses we've sold to see if they've been transferred to the new owners or not. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | I have one mare I got the end of January that I haven't sent the papers in to transfer yet. My reason is they gave me a transfer signed by the wrong person...so I had to wait for the new transfer to get here. It just came late last week. I'll probably wait until I get her in foal now to send it in. |
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Location: ND | i've had horses off and on over the years that i never bothered to transfer....don't know if anyone after me transferred them either... |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | Superior penny pincher here!! Thankfully I like them too darn much to see either ever leave :) |
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Location: The birthplace of Honest Abe | When you dont transfer and you sell the horse then it can become a headache for the person buying it. I got a mare in Oct last year and luckily the original owners where nice enough to do an avidivait on lost papers so I could get her papers in my name. |
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Location: Arkansas | We have 15 on our place (2 are grade). Only 2 of the registered ones aren't in our names: a mare that we purchased about a month ago and I just haven't gotten them sent in yet. The other is an 18 year old gelding that we were given. He will be used as a lesson horse and his papers are in the name of the daughter of the lady that we got him from. I doubt that we will transfer him.
I stay on top of transfers because we tend to resell. |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | jenijill - 2014-02-25 11:47 AM When you dont transfer and you sell the horse then it can become a headache for the person buying it. I got a mare in Oct last year and luckily the original owners where nice enough to do an avidivait on lost papers so I could get her papers in my name.
This......I bought a gelding a couple years ago that no one took the time to transfer. It took me forever, many pictures, a letter from the breeder and a signed affidavit. When hauling my horses I want copies of AQHA papers in my name & brand releases all in my trailer. |
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| To me geldings are just as important to transfer as mares! They need a history.
I bought a gelding a few years ago as "grade" (I will not own a grade horse). I had to track his papers using his lip tattoo. I got him at the age of 18. His papers had not been transferred since he was a 3yo at the track!!! Fortunately for me, I am fairly handy at finding people and I was able to get the papers re-issued. I know he had at least 4 owners, I know he was a trained roping horse, I know he was a trained barrel horse, I know he has abused....but I don't know his true history!!! Why people?!?!? Argh!!!
When I sold him, he was transferred, even though he was 21 by then.
I believe in ownership and having documentation to prove it! |
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Location: SE KS | kuhlmann - 2014-02-25 8:19 AM
On the geldings, did you get them from the last recorded owner or is there a gap there?
I know sometimes I'll look up an old horse and realize it is still in my name....sometimes 13+ years later.
Yes, there is usually a gap in owners for almost every gelding I have purchased!!!
However, I register all of them in my name! |
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Location: SE KS | kuhlmann - 2014-02-25 7:43 AM
How many of you own registered horses and have not transferred their papers into your name?
If you do, why haven't you transferred? Cost? Time? Desire?
We have 6, 2 mares & 4 geldings, ALL are registered in my name!!!
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Is it true that your membership can be revoked if you don't transfer?
http://horsesonly.com/articles/buying.htm
...If a seller fails to record the transfer of ownership, as above, their AQHA membership can be suspended, which is a very serious situation. This means they cannot race or show in AQHA events, they cannot transfer any more horses into their ownership, they can't stand a stallion, breed a mare, register a foal, etc., etc. If a horse dies or is sold without papers, the recorded owner must report this to AQHA and send the certificate of registration to them for notation....
Can someone please explain to me the transfer process? I know that we received the papers on one of my geldings, but I don't believe it came with any "transfer" paper. I think we have now lost his papers, but we have contact with the previous owner. How would I go about getting a transfer on a horse that has missing papers??
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Location: bring on the heat, NV | We only own 2 grades horses one of which is hopefully going to a new home... I have 3 horses ready to transfer and am waiting on two others. Hubbys broodmare came with her papers and no signed transfer took me a bit to line that out. prospects papers were still at the trainers and Im hoping to get those this weekend. Second prospect we have a lost papers problem. Working that out too. Im just waiting til they are all ready to send. We do have two geldings a 26 yo that while I have his papers the two owners before never transfered. Hubbys 12 yo gelding im going to find his papers again later this summer they were lost in the move/ new house. |
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Location: SE KS | Longneck - 2014-02-25 4:06 PM
Is it true that your membership can be revoked if you don't transfer?
http://horsesonly.com/articles/buying.htm
...If a seller fails to record the transfer of ownership, as above, their AQHA membership can be suspended, which is a very serious situation. This means they cannot race or show in AQHA events, they cannot transfer any more horses into their ownership, they can't stand a stallion, breed a mare, register a foal, etc., etc. If a horse dies or is sold without papers, the recorded owner must report this to AQHA and send the certificate of registration to them for notation....
Can someone please explain to me the transfer process? I know that we received the papers on one of my geldings, but I don't believe it came with any "transfer" paper. I think we have now lost his papers, but we have contact with the previous owner. How would I go about getting a transfer on a horse that has missing papers??
To get lost papers, there is an AQHA form that the owner on record must sign & have notarized, plus new pictures and the "buyer" portion needs to be filled out also. You can get the form from AQHA.com, under forms, I believe.
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Location: Texas | It is very simple. When you get the reg. papers, check the name of the last recorded owner. The person you purchased from SHOULD be the last name you see! If not they should supply you with a transfer report that is signed by the last recorded owner to them, and then one signed by them to you. |
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Location: bring on the heat, NV | Longneck - 2014-02-25 2:06 PM Is it true that your membership can be revoked if you don't transfer?
http://horsesonly.com/articles/buying.htm
...If a seller fails to record the transfer of ownership, as above, their AQHA membership can be suspended, which is a very serious situation. This means they cannot race or show in AQHA events, they cannot transfer any more horses into their ownership, they can't stand a stallion, breed a mare, register a foal, etc., etc. If a horse dies or is sold without papers, the recorded owner must report this to AQHA and send the certificate of registration to them for notation....
Can someone please explain to me the transfer process? I know that we received the papers on one of my geldings, but I don't believe it came with any "transfer" paper. I think we have now lost his papers, but we have contact with the previous owner. How would I go about getting a transfer on a horse that has missing papers??
You need to print out a duplicate affidavit and have the last recorded owner do their half and you do your half. They will also have to sign a transfer report. |
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Location: Texas | You have in your posession the original papers and don't have the Transfer Report?
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Thanks, everyone! I have both forms printed and partially filled out. |
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