Ever since I purchased Buddy, I have been trying to piece together his registration. His birthdate was reported as a live foal, but he is not registered as Hooman Akbary did not complete the info, or apparently, pay the stallion owner for the breeding!
My journey began when Alexis from Second Start Thoroughbreds told me that they had 100% good reason to believe Buddy was an un-named foal born April 1st, 2011 to a mare named On My Radar. This sire is the lovely G1 Stakes winner Bob and John. His bloodlines are a game of who's who in the Thoroughbred industry including some big names like Storm Cat, Secretariat, Seattle Slew & Northern Dancer of course. Evidently, Buddy has thrown back to his ND roots since his height thus far is a whopping 15h.
I totally just got off track!
Anyways, as I was saying after my discussions with Alexis, I decided I would like to pursue trying to find out how I could register Buddy. My purpose for this is a personal choice and goal, I would love to have his papers with my name that I choose for him and my name as his owner, I have put alot of work into this little guy. I am also hoping eventually, if he is successful, he will be eligible for some of the Ontario Thoroughbred Awards offered through the Ontario Horse Trials Assc. I think he deserves to have a chance. Which may seem cliche, but he was abandoned and sent through 3 auctions in his short life!
The road to getting the papers has been a long one, given the circumstances OTHA had to go through months of legal work because of how much debt the farm had racked up, the horses were all to be used by the bank and sold at appropriate Thoroughbred Sales auctions, instead, the caretaker shipped them ALL off to slaughter auctions in packed stock trailers. Many of the young stock died, Buddy was one of the very lucky ones who remained healthy other than being a bit thin.
Once the OTHA cleared him for registry, we had to contact the owners of the stallion as Akbary had not paid them for the stallion services, thus they have never released a stallion breeding certificate for Buddy... Until NOW! After all the emails and inquiries i've sent, it finally paid off and the very generous and kind owners from Pin Oak Stud in Kentucky agreed to settle with me and not penalize Buddy for an irresponsible breeders mistake. And they were thrilled to hear how well he is doing.
My next task will be to try and save up the money for his actual papers, because since he is 3, the late fee is well over $2000.00.... Anyone want a kidney???
