ABOUT
THE I.P.W.H.R.
(a new breed registry)
This is not a NEW IDEA but an idea whose
"TIME HAS COME"!
The IPWHR is a non-profit registry dedicated to the promotion of the Pleasure Walking Horse breed on an international level. This registry is for Walking Horses and their owners who show them soundly and humanely, use them for trail rides and/or pleasure and breed them for the purpose of producing a CORRECTLY GAITED example of the breed and one that does not have to be manipulated (physically or chemically) into an exaggerated and false gait.
The IPWHR is a BREED Registry that will accept the Gaited Registry papers and
DNA testing and/or bloodtyping of any Registered Walking Horse. It will provide a Certificate of Registration for Walking Horses, access to bloodtyping and/or DNA testing, and the registration of their offspring. It will record the transfer of ownership on these horses. And for a limited period of time, it will grandfather in those Walking Horses that missed the TWHBEA bloodtyping deadline.
The IPWHR will be a long-needed SERVICE ORGANIZATION!! You will pay ONLY for the services rendered to you! (IPWHR can and will be run more
inexpensively than others because there will be no agenda to pursue but the horse!) The IPWHR is not a Member Organization. There are no "human"
members...therefore no DUES! The only members are the HORSES!....through registration and transfer, birth and bloodtyping and/or DNA testing and, for a limited period of time, GRANDFATHERING, for those who missed out on the bloodtyping in the TWHBEA through lack of knowledge. There is both an Active BOD and an Advisory BOD; and area representatives to provide services to those who wish to register their horses and preserve the bloodlines.
The IPWHR is a SOUND Registry that will NOT accept the application for registration of a
Heavy Shod horse or one who is shown in a Padded-Up (Big Lick) classes and will discipline those who violate the HPA. The owner of any IPWHR registered horse
that is exhibited in Heavy Shod or Padded-Up (Big Lick) classes or which receives an "upheld" ticket for an HPA violation from a VMO or DQP for scar rule, unilateral soring or foreign substance will have the right to conduct business with IPWHR, as well as all their horses' registration status, suspended for a period of one year from the time of acceptance or conviction. (Conducting business meaning but not limited to: registration of foals, transfer of ownership, filing of stud reports, etc.) Second: the owner of any IPWHR registered horse which receives an "upheld" ticket for an HPA violation from a VMO or DQP for
bilateral soring, pressure shoeing or repeated violations will have the right to do business with IPWHR, as well as their all horses' registration status,
revoked for life from the time of acceptance or conviction. The only exception to that penalty would be that the violator would have the right to transfer ownership of that IPWHR registered horse to a new, non-related, owner of record. The new, non-related, owner of record can then reinstate the status of registration of that horse upon transferring the horse into his own name.
The IPWHR is a Registry for those who SHOW SOUND. IPWHR has received the
approval of Sound Associations such as: FOSH, UPPWHA, WCW, NPWHA, PWHA,
PEHSC, WHAM, NYSWHC, FASH, NaturalWHA, etc. and Sound HIO's such as HIT, HPC and
NWHA. Recognition by AHSA will give
owners even more opportunities to show sound and clean!
Grace Larson (owner of the Part Walking Horse Registry) will appendix her Registry to the IPWHR so that the horses in that Registry
THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR IPWHR REGISTRATION can ALSO be shown where the Show Management and HIO accepts the IPWHR in its classes for the Walking Horse!
Spotted horses that are registered with the ASHA (American Spotted Horse
Association), a sound, clean Registry for Spotted Horses, or are registered with
a Gaited Registry or have Gaited Registered parents, can be registered with IPWHR and also shown in these shows.
CRTWH (Canadian Registry of Tennessee Walking Horse) registered walking horses are also invited and welcome to register as well as those from many
OTHER Gaited Registries or have Gaited Registered parents.
Every Organization needs a "voice" and Angela Neilson owner and publisher of Steppin' Out has agreed to be the "voice" for this new Registry. There will be discounted subscription rates available to those registering with IPWHR. We hope to establish a symbiotic relationship with Steppin' Out so that the owners of the sound horses registered with IPWHR will have access to, and be able to contribute to the information in this publication and also continue to advertise their horses and businesses there.
Ultimately our goal for those who show is the desire to win the best of all - THE PLEASURE WALKING HORSE GRAND CHAMPIONSHIPS! IPWHR horses will be accepted by FOSH for entry in this show held in Colorado in September 2000. These are the horses that will represent THE BEST OF THE BREED! These horses are our future and the future of a breed that left to it's own devices in the "status quo" will lose ALL that these wonderful horses were bred to represent!
The IPWHR is not just another way to go or another way to fight soring! It is a much needed Registry for the ENTIRE BREED, regardless of use!
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