Mystica schreef:2 levensnummers. Nummer 1: 5280151 Nummer 2: 200441075
I want to make a comment on this to clarify some things. This horse has 1 lifenumber: 5280151200441075. I know from the fell pony studbook that they used to have software that could not recognize the length of these numbers. Therefore, they only printed 2004etc on the passports. However, the whole lifenumber includes the 528etc part. Something like that might have been the case with the FjordStudbook (one could check that by asking them). They may have printed it on the passport later on.
So the lifenumber is 5280151200441075.
The chipnumber is 981100000593557.
The horse was registered by the Dutch Fjordstudbook in March, 2008. Every horse can be registered by any official passport-making studbook, independent of the breed, in order to obtain a (legally necessary) passport. Since this horse was registered in March, it is very likely that the sole purpose of registering was for trading purposes / to export him to the UK. Of course, the previous owner could have chosen to register the horse in Belgium, but this might have taken more time, might have been more expensive, or whatever. Maybe he registered more horses at the same studbook? At the same time? Might be interesting to find out. Legally spoken, the horse should already have had a passport in order to cross the border between Belgium and the Netherlands (considering that the previous owner actually owned the horse in Belgium), but it is known that people "circumvent" these passport checks...
Also, it is possible that the previous owner bought the horse in the Netherlands and never transported it to Belgium. In that case, he just needed a new passport for this Dutch horse, therefore asked the Fjordstudbook for registration and papers. Maybe the passport was lost, maybe the passport was never there... It might be interesting to find out when the horse was microchipped. This might give you a clou about a possible previous passport. It is possible that the previous owner bought a paperless, non-chipped horse (this still happens!), microchipped (vet) and registered (Fjordstudbook) the horse and then sold it to the UK.
So, as you see, it's not necessary that the previous owner was lying or doing non-legal things
So far for my thoughts
