How To Trace A Horse Passport

Introduction

Gather all of the facts about the horse’s alleged passport. Record the passport number if available. Get all identifying information about the animal, including its age, sex, breed and markings. You’ll need this information to start a trace on a horse passport.

Contact the agency that issued the passport using its contact information on file or listed in an official directory, such as equine-agency-directory.com (see Resources). The agency will have you fill out an application and pay a fee to initiate a trace request. You won’t be billed until after they inform you whether or not they are able to find anything based on your information.

1. Get the horse’s passport number

The passport number is a unique number that identifies a horse. It’s usually on the passport and consists of a combination of letters and numbers, but it can sometimes be found on other documents such as the horse’s registration certificate or microchip card.

Methods to get this information:

Check with your vet

The easiest way to find out what your horse’s passport number is will be if you have access to his/her recent veterinary records as it could be listed there. If not, you may need to contact the vet practice where he/she was last seen for assistance with accessing this information from their computer system – although this may require speaking directly with them rather than submitting an online form via our website.

2. Contact the agency that issued the passport

Contact the agency that issued the passport. If your horse is stabled at an equestrian training facility, the trainer may be able to help you find out who issued it.
If you don’t know who issued the passport, contact the horse’s owner. Check with friends in your local riding community or veterinarians who might have worked with them recently; many owners are happy to share information about their pets.
If you don’t know who owns your horse, contact its breeder—the person or organization responsible for creating it by mating two other horses together—and ask if they still have any records related to breeding and registration that could help trace its roots back further than what’s available through official channels (in which case they might want to consider updating those records anyway).

3. Wait for your results

You may be on a horse passport trace waiting list, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait around for your results. Contact the issuing organization if you don’t receive them in a reasonable amount of time.

If the results are what you expected and there are no errors on them, then congratulations! Your new information is correct and ready for use with your horse’s official ID. If not, it is usually easier to start again with a new form than it is to try and fix something after entering incorrect information into an existing form.

4. Find the owner and confront them about their horse’s identity theft problem

If you are able to find the owner of a horse and confront them about their passport having been stolen, chances are that they won’t be happy with you. However, there is no way around this step in order for things to work out in favor of both parties. If you’re unable to locate the rightful owner of an animal’s passport, then it will be difficult (but not impossible) to help track down who stole it and why.

In order to find out who owns a horse’s document, contact the agency that issued its paperwork by calling or emailing their headquarters directly. The agency will likely have some sort of database with information on all horses they’ve issued passports for; if not, they may have records stored offline so that they can provide accurate information when someone asks them something specific like: “Who sold my horse?”

You can stop a case of horse identity theft by tracing a passport.

You might think that identifying a horse passport is an important step in preventing identity theft. It’s true that no one wants to buy a stolen horse, but the truth is that most people don’t know how easy it is to trace a passport and prevent problems before they even happen. Here’s how:

Step 1: Locate the microchip on your horse’s shoulder and note the number. This is usually between 8 and 10 characters long, but it might vary depending on where you got your animal from or what microchip company you used (more about this later).

Step 2: Go online and search for “trace passport” + [your breed]. Be sure to use quotation marks around “passport.” For example, if you want to trace a Quarter Horse passport, search for “trace quarter horse passport.” You’ll then be presented with several results of sites that let you see if your animal has been identified as stolen by any authorities anywhere in the world. There will likely be quite a few options here, so choose one at random—just make sure it isn’t one run by someone who might intentionally sell animals whose identities have already been stolen! If nothing comes up when searching for your breed name alone, try adding “-horse” onto the end of whatever other keywords you’re using (e.g., “quarter-horse”).

Step 3: Search through all available databases until either no results appear or all potential matches have been found; these may include things like police records from neighboring states or countries so take care not overemphasize any particular result unless absolutely necessary because doing so could lead down dangerous paths such as entering into conversations with criminals who are trying their hardest not get caught!

Conclusion

If you ever suspect that your horse has been stolen and given a fake passport, it’s important to act quickly. Start by contacting the agency that issued the passport, then wait for the results of their investigation. If they find the owner of your horse, you can now confront them about their problem. Remember: while tracing a passport may seem like an inconvenience at first glance, it’s actually one of the best ways to prevent identity theft from happening again in future!