How do I obtain informations about breeding stallions?

The breeding stallions listed in our 'sires and dams' column are not owned by us but they are featured here either because we have used them in our breeding program or for reference to illustrate their progeny we are offering for sale. Stallion owners in Germany are best contacted via telephone as not all stations use email as a measure of daily communication like we do. If you are looking to breed to any of the stallions featured please consider their owner's websites which may be found in our links section or on the single stallion's personalized site.
Please note we do not benefit from any of your semen purchases but merely offer this information as a service to our customers. If you don't find the contact information on line the next source to use would be your current registry's stallion distribution plan ('Hengstverteilungsplan') which is readily available to members.
If you fail to find the stallion in the listings that means he is either not approved or not currently active within your registry. For specific information on such stallions please feel free to use our research service via the contact form anytime or via telephone during our business hours.

How do I obtain a German show record on my own?

Show records from Germany are easily obtained from the German National Equestrian Federation (FN). However as most institutions in Germany they do not accept credit card payment but you have to provide a German bank account for payment. If you do have a German bank account and speak sufficient German to handle the online form this will be the easiest and quickest way to obtain an up to date show record. Please note you will need the horse's life-ID (which is not the Microchipnumber nor the UELN you may have on file). If you do not have the life-ID you will need other specific information such as the horse's registered show name (may have been latered in the past), breeder, date of birth, pedigree as otherwise the FN can not handle your request. We discourage our clients from making inquiries via fax but in our experience the written snail mail form is the most efficient. Address your inquiries to:

If you have problems to obtain the desired show record for whatever reason please feel free to let us have a shot at it.

What is a Life-ID?

The life-ID of today is a 15 digit number built as follows:

• 1-3:
  country code of issueing country (e.g. 276 for Germany)

• 4:
  indication of birth before or after year 2000 (3=before, 4=after)

• 5-6:
  breed code (e.g. 31 for Hanoverian)

• 7-8:
  registry code

• 9-13:
  individual code

• 14-15:
  year of birth (e.g. 05 means born 2005, 97 means born 1997)

Please note the three digit country code is mostly replaced by a two letter ISO code (e.g. DE instead of 276 for Germany) so effectively most life-ID's will be 14 digit not 15.

Horses registered before 2000 may have a shorter life-ID and/or missing the country code prefix altogether. Please note the life-ID may differ from studbook or stallion book number and a horse that has left its country of origin may have been given a completely different number by the organization in charge. This means your horse can have multiple registration numbers but only one of them is the life-ID. If it does not have a life-ID it may be not registered at all or the original papers were lost at some point and noone bothered to have them reissued. If you have the life-ID for your horse this will enable you to securely identify it and specifically refer to it when communicating with any official institution within the European Union.
The down side of it is if you do not have a life-ID for your horse you have a substantial problem to obtain any valid information and it may be time to get in touch with us. The life-ID once it has been issued will never be altered so if someone tells you so they are either trying to take you for a ride or they don't know what they are talking about.