REGISTRATION DUE DATES
Any application for a horse to be considered for registration in the Stud Book or Appendix Register of the AQHA must be made within the following time frames:
a) Horses born between 1 August and 28 February in any breeding year must be registered or recorded by 31 May next following; and
b) Horses born between 1 March and 31 July in any breeding year must be registered or recorded by 31 October next following.
Refer to our Schedule of Fees for horse outside these dates.
See Registry Services for Stud Book, Appendix Register, Performance Registry & Foundation Recording.
NAME A HORSE
A horse will be allocated a name by the applicant that is acceptable. The AQHA reserves the right to refuse any name it deems unacceptable or inappropriate.
- Numerals and any form of punctuation are not acceptable.
- The horse’s name cannot exceed 25 characters, including spaces. NB: If USA registration is intended to be sought, the AmQHA allows up to 20 characters.
- You cannot use the name of an already registered horse in its entirety.
- Using a prefix, in front of an already registered name, the name will not be accepted.
- The name of an already registered horse, alive or deceased, as per AQHA records, cannot be reused by: a) adding a Suffix eg. S, en, ed, ing,er, est b) adding letters in front of, within or at the end of that name.
For registration application forms and information go to Registry Services
RESERVING A NAME
A name may be reserved for a period of two (2) years from the date the Association receives a written reservation request. A fee of $100 per year applies.
HORSE PREFIX
A member may only have one (1) registered prefix. This must not be confused with the necessity to register the business name of the stud with the appropriate State Authority. Once a prefix has been allocated to a member, the member may not change the prefix although the member may choose to discontinue the use of it.
- The AQHA reserves the right to approve or reject any prefix it deems unacceptable.
- No prefix may be used until written notification of approval has been received by the member.
- A prefix may only be used when the person registering or recording a horse is also the breeder of that horse, except if the breeder gives written authority to the AQHA to allow the person registering or recording a horse to use their prefix.
- A prefix will not be accepted if it: a) Is the name of an already registered horse; b) Is the name of a prefix already registered with the Association; c) Has been used previously at the beginning of the name of any registered horse; or d) Sounds like any other already registered prefix.
- Plurals of existing prefixes cannot be registered as a prefix.
- Any prefix that has been applied for and approved, and has never been used, can be relinquished in writing and that member can apply for another prefix.
- If a prefix has been relinquished then that prefix will be made available to any other member if they so wish to apply.
