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How to use

 

This web application is capable of doing 5 types of searches.  It can search for an exact name, a partial name, a registration number, all the horses sired by a specified stallion or all the horses born to a specified mare.

 

Exact Name Search

  1. Enter the exact name of the horse in the Search String box.  Capitalization does not matter.
  2. Under Search Type make sure the circle in front of Whole Name is selected.
  3. Click the Search button.

 

Partial Name Search

This search is useful when you either don't know the exact name of the horse or the exact name you tried turned up no results.

  1. Enter the partial name of the horse in the Search String box.  Capitalization does not matter.  You must enter at least 3 characters.
  2. Under Search Type make sure the circle in front of Partial Name is selected.
  3. Click the Search button.

 

Registration Number Search

This search is useful when you know the registration number on a horse.  There are several of the old original horses that were known under several names.  If you know the registration number then you can find what name the horse was actually registered under.

  1. Enter the registration number of the horse in the Search String box.  It must be entered exactly as shown with no spaces.
  2. Under Search Type make sure the circle in front of Registration Number is selected.
  3. Click the Search button.

 

Sire Search

This search is useful if you want to find all the horses sired by a specific stallion.

  1. Enter the name of the stallion in the Search String box.  This name must be the exact name shown under sire on the horse's papers.  Please note that some unregistered sires in the past used the same name as horses that were later registered.  This search does not make a distinction.
  2. Under Search Type make sure the circle in front of Sire is selected.
  3. Click the Search button.

 

Dam Search

This search is useful if you want to find all the horses born to a specific mare.  Mare owners that bought a mare after she has had several foals may find this especially interesting.

  1. Enter the name of the mare in the Search String box.  This name must be the exact name shown under dam on the horse's papers.  Please note that some unregistered dams in the past used the same name as horses that were later registered.  This search does not make a distinction.
  2. Under Search Type make sure the circle in front of Dam is selected.
  3. Click the Search button.

 

Search Results

If no matches are found then "Sorry, no data matched your request” will be displayed.  If a horse(s) is found that matches your search then a table will be displayed showing the possible match(es) as well as the classification, body color and date of birth.  The names of the horses in the table are links that can be clicked on to take you to more information on the horse.  Click on the underlined name of a horse in the table and you will be taken to another screen that gives more information on that horse.  If the horse's sire or dam were registered then their registration numbers will be underlined.  These are links that will take you to the sire or dam's detailed information page.  By clicking on these links you can traverse the pedigree of a horse all the way back to the last registered ancestors.  Additionally, if we have loaded pictures of the horse online then those will be displayed on the bottom of the detailed information page as thumbnails.  These thumbnail pictures can be clicked on to display the full size picture.

 

Starting A New Search

A new search can be started at any time from the top of either the search results page or the detailed information page.  Both pages have a fully functional search form at the top.

 

Example

Let’s say that we want to look up Kilburn’s Chocolate Sundown.  I would start out entering his exact name in the search box, making sure Whole Name is selected as the search type and then clicking the search button.  The results I get from this was “Sorry, no data matched your request”, but I know this SHOULD be correct.  Anytime there is punctuation in horse’s name it can be typed in a number of different ways, or even left out.  Given that, the next step would be to enter just part of his name.  Since ‘Sundown’ could have been entered as two words (it was not in this case but let’s pretend we don’t know that), we will pick ‘chocolate’ to enter as the partial name.  Then select Partial Name in the search type and click the search button.  Wow do we get a list from that!  That search produces about 5 screens worth of names on my computer.  If we did not know that the name should start out with something LIKE Kilburn’s then a list this might be more then we would want.  Luckily, all we need to do is scroll down to where the names start with the letter K.  There are only 5 horses that have names starting with K (at the time of this writing) and most are “Kilburn’s” horses.  Here is where we find out why the first search did not work.  Kilburn’s Chocolate Sundown does not have the apostrophe in his name.  He was registered as Kilburns Chocolate Sundown.  Clicking on this name will pull up his detailed information page.  His sire and dam were both unregistered horses, so there are no records on them to go to, however, there is a picture at the bottom of the page displayed as a thumbnail.  Clicking on that will display a larger version of the picture.  You can return to the detailed information page by clicking on the word BACK just under the picture.  Now that we know his exact name, we can do a search for all the foals he produced by typing Kilburns Chocolate Sundown in the search box, selecting Sire in the search type and clicking the search button.  That generated almost as long a list as our previous search!  Click on the first entry on the list ("MY MY" SUNDOWN SPECIAL) and it will display her detailed information.  Here you can see that the registration numbers for both the sire and dam are underlined.  These are links that will take you to the parent’s record.  If you click on the dam’s registration number (in this case 910049 for Yankee’s Special Girl) it will take you to Yankee’s Special Girl’s detailed record. 

 

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