A registered Hanoverian will always have the appropriate paperwork that was issued by either the American Hanoverian Society or the German Verband in Hanover, Germany. Obtain the right paperwork for purebred horses with information from the owner and operator of a Hanoverian horse farm in this free video on horse breeds.
Hello! My name is Nancy Connolly. I'm owner of HorsePower Farm Hanoverians here in Vancouver, Washington. I'm here to talk to you a little bit today about what makes a registered Hanoverian? You hear the term Hanoverian used in many many different ways. What we're going to describe today is how they are registered and what makes them a true registered Hanoverian. There are usually two main registration papers that you will see from horses in the United States. Those papers are either issued and stamped by the American Hanoverian Society or they were issued over in Hanover, Germany and are stamped by what is referred to as the German Verband or the VHW. Those papers if they come from Germany and have been imported, come with the horse in a passport format are then also submitted to the American Hanoverian Society and put on registration so that if you are looking to breed a registered Hanoverian you will need to inspect your horse's papers to see that, number one, those papers are also pink. You will sometimes get some confusion with what the color white paper which just means a certificate of pedigree maybe where the lineage of each period was not truly all the way back to the Hanoverian Society for various reasons. So, you're looking for a pink colored paper literally that's issued by the American Hanoverian Society that will have the Sire and the Dam and the lineage that goes back five, six generations. The same will occur if you get the passport papers that are issued from Germany, again, pink color that list the Sire, the Dam, date of birth and also where that horse was bred and by whom. So, part of the confusion comes in that many Hanoverian blood, much Hanoverian blood has been incorporated into different registries or someone has bred possibly a registered Hanoverian with a non-registered Hanoverian. Those particular horses will not be able to get that true pink paper so it's important to look, ask for your horse's registration papers that should always and I mean always be available from the owner or you can certainly call the American Hanoverian Society or the German Verband to make sure that those papers were issued at some point in time.
