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The 2026 Grading Dates for the PREs in the UK are now booked for Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th August at the Unicorn Trust Equestrian Centre, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire. This is still to be confirmed by ANCCE-LGPRE but it is very unlikely that the dates will need to be altered. More information and the application forms will be available at https://bapsh.co.uk/pre-breeding-approval-stallions-mares/ as soon as possible.

The 2026 Grading for all our other Breeds will be organised as a Virtual event again. Application forms and fees must be with BAPSH by 1st June and this includes the Veterinary Examination Certificates for any Stallions and for HA Mares. The completed Measurements, Conformation Photos, and Videos of movement and jumping must be received by BAPSH before or by 30th June 2026.

After 3 years of no fee increases for all our Registry Services, changes made by DEFRA and ANCCE-LGPRE in February /March 2025 have necesitated increases in the Services that their regulation changes have affected. However we have managed to maintain unchanged all the fees for BAPSH Transfers of Ownership, Castration updates, Changes of Owner Surname/Address, and Death Notification with Passport return, and our Postage and Packing fees remain the same.
DEFRA – Workload and processing times have been doubled by DEFRA’s new regulations imposed upon ALL Studbook Breeding Programs throughout the UK that involve the use of mares or stallions outside their breeds for foal production; for BAPSH that means  the PRE Fusion Horses, Hispano-Arabs, Spanish Spotted Saddle Horses and Spanish-Norman Horses are affected by the new regulations. Mares and Stallions of breeds outside our Studbooks must now be actually registered by BAPSH into our new Foundation Classes for each breed, the full equine details recorded, a reference number assigned and the passport given a virtual overstamp to include the horse in our relevant Breed Studbook.
You will see that the New 2026 PFH, HA, SSSH, and SNH registration application forms all have 4 alternative prices in the bottom right corner. IF the mare or stallion of a breed from outside our studbooks has foals already registered with BAPSH then the lower prices can be selected but we may have to request additional copies of pedigree documents to meet DEFRA’s new rules. IF you are using a young stallion or mare of a breed from outside our studbooks for the first time then it is probably not on our studbook database and you need to select the higher fee and you will need to supply comprehensive copies of this horse’s Passport pages,  certified Pedigree/ Zootechnic Certificate, and Genetic Test Certificates as well as the usual Covering Certificate. If it is a well known older Stallion or Mare then we may have progeny registered from this horse already and the lower price will be okay BUT please check with BAPSH first.

ANCCE-LGPRE – Workload and processing times have been substantially increased on some of the ANCCE-LGPRE Services due to the new payment Validation & Document Verification procedures introduced last February and placed upon ALL ANCCE affiliated National Studbook organisations throughout the world. BAPSH felt unable to suddenly increase our fee structure for ANCCE Services part way through 2025 and have carried the increased workload FOC for the past 10 months, but that cannot continue so fees have had to go up to cover the massive increase in processing time for those ANCCE Services affected.

Mary McBryde – Director BAPSH Ltd (2026-01-10)

The BAPSH Office is closing for an Easter Spring Holiday before the foaling season seriously gets underway. Post arriving here will still be received safely but not processed before Thursday 24th April. The Office phone numbers will not be answered and the office emails only looked at occasionally !
GRADING DATES for PRE Horses are 19th & 20th AUGUST 2025 – please go for more information to the PRE Grading pages.
GRADING DATES for our other 4 Studbooks are still to be decided but will likely be Virtual Gradings again. More information shortly.
Have a lovely sunny Easter with best wishes from all at BAPSH Ltd

BAPSH office will be shut from 2pm 19/12/2023 to 10am 04/01/2024. Post will still be received here daily.
Wow, this has been a busy, busy year in the BAPSH Ltd registry office, and it seems to have got even busier this autumn. The BAPSH office staff are all worn out and needing some rest & recuperation time over Christmas and New Year so the BAPSH office will be shutting from 2pm Tuesday 19th December 2023 to 10am Thursday 4th January 2024.

Transfers of ownership have been very active all year, especially this autumn with nearly 3 times as many horses being bought/sold in November 2023 as in November 2022. PRE Fusion foal registrations have just about doubled in 2023 which is a great achievement for breeders. It looks like there are lots of PRE and PFH foals due for 2024 BUT there seem to be quite a lot of Covering Certificates for 2023 matings that have not yet been received or applied for so far. Non PRE foal CCs should all have been sent to BAPSH by the Stallion owners by 1st Dec (emailed copies of the Stallion section), and all PRE x PRE matings should have been registered with BAPSH Ltd and CCs requested by 1st December too.

All Foals born in 2023 should now be registered and passported by BAPSH Ltd or at least be started on this process (PRE foals take longer !). UK Equine Law requires all foals to be regisetred by 30th November in their year of birth. If you haven’t done this yet for your lovely foals then please get a move on and get their registrations underway. All information on the processes to follow for PREs or for PRE assoicate breeds can be found on our website pages.
BAPSH wish all our clients, breeders & owners, and all Spanish Horse enthusiasts a very MERRY CHRISTMAS & a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

PRE 2023 Grading dates are confirmed by ANCCE-LGPRE and the Unicorn Trust EC venue to be 19th & 20th August with a possible extension into 21st August. Most of the Information has been updated on the PRE Grading page but the main forms are still being overhauled. Everything should be ready for you to start bookingyour horses in for Grading by 1st March.

PFH (including Rocky Mountains), SSSH, HA, AAH, SNH – Grading in 2023 will consist of TWO Virtual Grading sessions in May & September. Information mostly updated on the relevant pages, some forms still to be overhauled. Owners of Stallions and HA mares can download the essential Stage 1 Reproductive Vetting form which has not changed from 2022 and get this critical Stage completed in good time this Spring.

We are looking forward to seeing some lovely horses again this year and meeting many owners and breeders whether in reality or virtually. Good luck everyone with your preparations for your horse’s Grading.

CHRISTMAS THRU NEW YEAR REGISTRY OFFICE CLOSED

The BAPSH Ltd Registry Office will be closed from 4pm Friday 17th December until 10am Monday 3rd January 2021.

All at BAPSH Ltd wish all our UK Breeders, Owners, and other clients a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2022. Please stay safe over the festive period and respect all the government advice and guidelines but have a great time with horses and family and close friends.

2021 Covering Certificates – All 2021 ANCCE-LGPRE Spanish Covering Certificates for PRE (Purebred Spanish Horse) production and 2021 BAPSH Ltd Covering Certificates for PRE Fusion Horse, Spanish Spotted Saddle Horse, Albion Azteca, and Spanish Norman Horse production should have been sent to the BAPSH by 1st December. If you haven’t sent yours in to the office then please hurry, because the fee for ‘out-of-year’ CCs is double and this kicks in on 1st January 2022 for 2021 Coverings.

2021 Foals – All PRE Foals and PRE Fusion Horse, Spanish Spotted Saddle Horse, Albion Azteca, and Spanish Norman Horse Foals born before 30th June 2021 should have been registered with BAPSH Ltd by now. All foals born after 30th June should have had their  Foal Registration applications sent in to our office by 30th November to comply with UK Equine Law !!
REMEMBER that it takes at least 2 to 3 months after you have sent in your PRE Foal’s Vet completed Registration application for the ANCCE-LGPRE passports to be printed and sent to the UK.  The law requires all foals to actually have received their Passport by the time they are 6 months old (or the end of the year) – not just the submission of a registration application, so don’t delay, get your applications in to the office ASAP.

In 2022 – We recommend that breeders and stallion owners try to meet the following deadlines to reduce costs and to receive foal passports well inside the Governments time-limits.

1a. Apply for registration for all breeds before your foal is 4weeks old.
1b. PRE Foals – get the Foal ID Kit completed by the Vet and posted back to BAPSH Ltd within a week of receipt.
2. Apply for / submit Covering Certificate Stallion stub copies to BAPSH Ltd within 1 month of the last date of Covering.
3. Ensure that all PREs bought for breeding/standing at stud have the new ownership registered with BAPSH Ltd (includes DEFRA CED) and the ANCCE-LGPRE Studbook Service 619 application completed immediately after purchase. If you need assistance or explanations about how to proceed with any of the above actions please read through our website for assistance; if you cannot find the answer to your query then please email bapshregistrar@btinternet.com , but don’t expect an answer between 18th December and 3rd January.

COVID-19 TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS FORCE DECISION TO CANCEL

A couple of days ago the BAPSH Directors, Mary McBryde and Peter Brooks, held  a meeting to discuss the viability of the central venue Grading Event booked with the Unicorn Trust EC and the ANCCE-LGPRE for the 15th to 18th August 2021. The sad conclusion was that this Grading Event is impossible to hold due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on International Travel. The August 2021 Grading Event is CANCELLED because it is impossible to bring the ANCCE Grading Delegate into England under the current COVID-19 travel restrictions for Spain and its Island Territories. The lack of the ANCCE Vet means No Grading for PREs because PREs can ONLY be assessed for reproduction approval  by one of these highly trained ANCCE Grading Vets.
The August PRE Grading was still going ahead right up until this Monday, 19th. The last straw for the August Grading was the change of status for the Balearic Islands on the UK Travel system from Green to Amber early on Monday 19th. Just the previous week we had arranged with the ANCCE-LGPRE Director to use the Grading Delegate stationed in Majorca (then in the Green category). We have also been expecting that the UK would reach agreement with the EU over an Electronic Vaccine Passport for all double vaccinated EU residents wishing to visit the UK which will permit entry into the UK from Amber Zone countries without the need for 10 days Quarantine. However the EU citizen’s Vaccine Passport has not been agreed upon  in time for our August Grading to proceed.
BUT over the past couple of days the BAPSH Directors have been working on some New and Innovative ways of GRADING  our Studbook Breeds in 2021, so don’t give up hope of getting essential Gradings done  this year – this is particularly important for un-graded PRE mares & stallions with foals born in 2020 & 2021..

NEW PLANS FOR 2021 GRADING
GRADING FOR PUREBRED SPANISH HORSES 2021  – BAPSH conclude it is impossible to give Fixed Dates for a PRE Grading Visit from Spain this year, the COVID-19 Travel restrictions are changing so fast that any Fixed Dates are likely to fail in 2021. The ONLY chance to Grade our PRE Horses is to be super-flexible on Dates and Venues and just wait for the Travel Restrictions from Spain to change so that a Delegate can get to England without Quarantine. Obviously this might never happen in 2021, but if it does change we all need to be ready to take advantage of the opportunity.
Therefore the 2021 Grading Dates may be ANY WEEKEND from late AUGUST to 1st DECEMBER 2021 – the VENUES will be restricted to 4 or 5 locations around England at various PRE owner’s Stud-farms or yards which are best positioned for good access for a geographical group of PRE Owners who want to get horse/s Graded in 2021.

The moment any area of Spain goes into the GREEN category OR the EU Vaccination Passports become a reality BAPSH will contact ANCCE  to arrange for a Grading Delegate to Travel to England ASAP to Grade our PREs.  There will probably be only a few days notice that we can give our Booked and Paid-up Owners that a Grading Event is happening before the Delegate arrives in the UK to start work . Thus it is ESSENTIAL that owners continue to train their horses to be calm whilst being measured all over as per the Grading Photo Series (download from  BAPSH website), and to move out nicely at in-hand walk,  and trot and canter on a large lunge circle. This type of training is a good education for the horses and won’t be a wasted effort even if we all have to wait to Grade until 2022. PRE horses never forget anything they learn.
2021 PRE Grading Booking Forms are now on the BAPSH website for New Horses to be Booked for Grading in 2021 as described above –  GRADING BOOKING FORM 2021 – DATES UNKNOWN

BAPSH will contact all 2020 ‘roll-over’ horse owners to ask whether they want to  be on the 2021 Grading List or if they prefer to ‘roll-over’ again to May 2022 National Grading Event at the Unicorn Trust EC.

The uncertainty of Dates & Venues, or the possibility of short notice before needing to travel horses to a Grading Event will make it impossible for some owners to take advantage of this one-off style of Grading for 2021. So BAPSH have already booked dates in May 2022 for a National Grading Event at the Unicorn Trust EC. Owners who cannot  attend a Grading without advance planning can continue to ‘roll-over’ horses originally booked for 2020. Owners planning to Grade new youngsters in 2021 can take the option to Book now to Grade in 2021 if flexibility is possible or they can book their horses for MAY 2022 BASIC GRADING EVENT on the New 2022 PRE Grading Form – GRADING BOOKING FORM – MAY 2022

GRADING 2021 FOR PRE FUSION HORSES, HISPANO-ARABS, SPANISH-NORMAN HORSES & SPANISH SPOTTED SADDLE HORSES
The National Grading Event for these Breeds is going VIRTUAL – just for this year, 2021.
Owners now have an amazing opportunity to present their broodmares, and youngsters aged 3yrs or over for Evaluation and Breeding Approval  (Grading) without the need to travel to a central venue.
BAPSH hope that all horse breeders/ owners who don’t want to travel their horses will take advantage of this unexpected opportunity brought about by the COVID travel restrictions.
Grading Stage 2 Entry Forms and Instructions on the Virtual Grading procedure will be available in the next couple of days.
All Stallions MUST still have completed the Stage 1 Reproductive Assessment by an Equine Vet – the Stage 1 form is available for download – PFH, SSSH, SNH, AAH STALLIONS Breeding Approval STAGE 1 Reproductive Exam by Vet 2021
Full details in the next day or so.

NEW FEES & REGISTRY FORMS FOR 2020
This year, 2020, we have had to increase domestic P&P by £1.00 per item in order to cover the continuous increases by Royal Mail. Most other services have also had small increases in their fees to keep up with rising prices of ink, stationery and other office costs and overheads. The new fees can be downloaded from this page – REGISTRY FEES FOR ALL SERVICE

GRADING DATES ARE 7th & 8th September for PRE Stallions and Mares, and 9th September for all Register II Stallions and Mares, this includes PRE Fusion Horses, Spanish Spotted Saddle Horses, Albion Aztecas, and Spanish-Norman Horses.
Use this link for application forms and information for Breeding Approval and Grading PRE horses – PRE BREEDING APPROVAL

Use this link for application forms and information for Breeding Approval and Grading of Register II horses – REGISTER II BREEDING APPROVAL

Keep an eye out for the 2020 dates – its looking like early August this year. More news about Grading PRE horses, PRE Fusion Horses, Spanish Spotted Saddle Horses, Albion Aztecas, and Spanish-Norman Horses next week.