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Registry & membership News
Dear Members, After twenty-two years of providing excellent customer service and support to the Societies members, Lindy Stewart has decided to hang up her working boots and retire to enjoy life and spend time with her Grandkids. Lindy’s last day will be this Thursday, 1st of September. Although we are going to miss her, the…
Dear Members, After 34 years of dedicated service with the Arabian Horse Society of Australia, Helen Dohan has hung up her reins and is retiring from her position with the Society. In that time Helen has seen and been part of many exciting and challenging times with the Society and she has been a main…
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We are very pleased to advise that The AERA database is now ready to calculate our new Endurance Sire and Dam of the Year Awards for us using their usual point system. AERA have suggested that all rides greater than 80km be included. They feel that, properly promoted, this would be a very sought-after award…
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The Arabian Performance Index is an initiative of the Society which acknowledges the Arabian ancestry of horses which contain less than 12.45% recorded Arabian breeding and which are not eligible for registration in any of the Arabian Derivative registries. Arabian Performance Index recorded horses and ponies are eligible to compete in any class not specified…
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Horses eligible for registration in the Half Arabian registry must have one Purebred Arabian parent. Horses with one Purebred parent may be registered in the Half Arabian or one of the other Arabian Derivative registries depending on the breeding of the other parent. Half Arabians competing in Half Arabian classes will be judged on Arabian…
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Owners of Arabians and those horses/ponies derived from Arabian blood can now get all their genetic testing for SCID, CA & LFS done in Australia. The University of Qld. now offers SCID, CA & LFS testing which can be done in conjunction with DNA typing or separately. Practical Horse Genetics now offers SCID, LFS & CA…
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The AHSA is proud to announce the launch of its new Online Studbook. The new studbook will be an amazing resource for many of you. It has many updated features, making searching for horses, breeders and owners much easier. New searchable fields include: colur, markings, age, microchip, import and export country and more. Horse Detail Pages…
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Change of DNA provider resulting in increased processing and reporting time. The DNA laboratory used has always been the one under the umbrella of the Australian Stud Book and has historically been the University of Queensland. The ASB recently decided to move all testing to Massey University in NZ. Breed Societies were notified on a…
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This register was initiated by the Board of the AHSA to encourage new members, to celebrate the Arabian blood in low percentage horses and to encourage these owners into higher percentage horses in the future. The concept was to have classes at our Arabian shows that these horses could enter that would possibly also assist…
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