Grants

Suffolk Horse Society Grants for 2008

WOULD ALL STALLION AND MARE OWNERS MAKE CERTAIN THAT THEY READ THE DETAILS OF THE GRANTS AND THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY WILL BE GIVEN AS PUBLISHED BELOW.

The Society is very grateful to the Horserace Betting Levy Board and to all those supporters who help to raise money for the Society, enabling it to offer breeding grants for 2008 in the following categories.

For Stallion Owners

  • £100.00 Grant for placing a licensed registered stallion on the list of stallions standing at stud.
    Condition:
    1. Stallion owners to provide the Society with a photograph of their stallion for publication in the Suffolk Horse Magazine and promotion on the Society’s website.  (Pictures provided for 2007 will be used unless owners wish to provide a more recent image)
  • £100.00 Grant in respect of each registered Suffolk mare covered by a licensed registered stallion from the list.
    Conditions: 
    1.     Stallion owners must complete an annual covering record sheet and return this to the  Society by 26th September 2008. (Record sheets will be sent out by the Society in September).
    2. Stallion owners must provide mare owners with a covering certificate for each mare covered.  This is to enable any resulting foal to be registered. Covering
    certificates are mandatory under EU legislation. 
  • £39.00 Grant for each reported birth of a foal sired by his or her stallion.
    Conditions: 
    1. The owner of the dam of each foal must report the birth of the live foal to the Suffolk Horse Society within seven  days of it occurring.
    2. Grants will be paid to the stallion owner for each live foal, foal born dead, or aborted visible foetus and will also be paid if a mare dies and is shown to be in foal by a veterinary surgeon’s post mortem report.  Each of these events, however, must be reported to the Society’s office within seven days.
  • £100.00 Grant for all stallions forward at the Woodbridge Horse Show.
  • £300.00 Grant for maintaining a colt entire until the age of two years.
    This grant is payable to the owner of a colt that reaches two years old and is presented for inspection for stallion. This is a two part process requiring an initial examination by a veterinary surgeon (a grant of £50.00 will be made towards the vetting fee) and subsequent examination by two inspectors appointed by the Society.  Contact the Society’s office for further details.
    Condition: 
    1. Animals achieving licence must be placed on the stallion list and offered for service.

Grants for Mare Owners

  • £60.00 Grant to owners of every registered Suffolk mare covered by a registered licensed Suffolk stallion or inseminated by frozen semen. Contact the Society’s office for AI details.
    Condition: 
    1. Only one grant payable per mare per year.
  • £150.00 Grant to mare owners for registering foals before 1st October 2008. 
    In addition each registered foal will be provided with an equine passport free of charge as part of the registration process.
    Condition: 
    1.     The owner of the dam of each foal must report the birth of the foal to the Suffolk Horse Society within seven days of it occurring or the grant may be forfeit.
    2. On receipt of the report of each live birth the office will send a registration form to the mare owner for completion by a veterinary surgeon. The completed  form must be returned to the office before 1st October 2008 and will be incorporated into the equine passport. 
    3.  The owner of the dam of each foal must provide the Society with a covering certificate for each foal to be registered.
    4.  Owners of foals forward for registration must submit a blood sample, which will be held by the Animal Health Trust at Newmarket. Details will be provided with the registration forms.
    NB. There will be a registration fee of £20 for foals registered after 1st October.  This  fee will be waived by the Society for each foal registered by 1st October.  If an animal is registered after the end of the year in which it was born it will have to be inspected by two appointed members of the Society’s Panel of Judges and this inspection will be at the owner’s expense. Please note DEFRA states that all horses born after 30 November 2003  require a passport by the 31st December in the year of birth or by 6 months of age, whichever is later.
  • Travelling Grant. Available to mare owners for expenses incurred in travelling long distances to a suitable stallion. Payable at 50p per mile, excluding the first 50 miles out and back, with the horse on board.
    Condition:
    1. Owners wishing to claim a travel grant must write to the Society with details of the mileage incurred.  Claims must be made by 1st October 2008.
  • Owners of mares that have had difficulties conceiving for the last two years may apply for financial assistance for examination to identify problems.  The terms of this grant are that the mare is examined at a centre specialising in horse fertility, preferably the Equine Fertility Unit at Newmarket. Each application for such assistance will be considered by the Society’s Breeding Committee.

PLEASE NOTE

GRANTS AND PREMIUMS ARE PAYABLE ONLY TO FULLY PAID UP MEMBERS OF THE SUFFOLK HORSE SOCIETY.

GRANTS AND PREMIUMS ARE PAYABLE ONLY IN RESPECT OF UK REGISTERED SUFFOLK HORSES.