I am not sure why this was posted, Eyke Sovereign was registered in the SHS stud book, both his sire and dam are in the SHS, so he is fully Verified by the Suffolk Horse Society, so he was only DNA here for any offspring that are out of him here can be 100% DNA as he being the sire of them.

Rodney, I do not know the answer to your question but it does bring a question to my mind that I am certain you would be able to help me with on this subject,. What is in place to "Marry" The English Stud book with the American Stud Book? DNA wise? Do the English use the same Lab as us,? Is there a data base that a person can go find? Or if different labs do both use the same parameters?
Thank you for any light you can shed on this matter.

2. Any Suffolk stallion or mare recorded in the Stud Book of Great Britain shall be eligible for registry, but an Export Certificate from the Suffolk Horse Society of Great
Britain must accompany application.
3. Any Suffolk stallion or mare by a sire and out of a dam recorded in either the American Suffolk Horse Stud Book, the Suffolk Stud Book of Great Britain, or the Stud
Book maintained by the Ministry of Agriculture of Canada shall be eligible for registry; provided however, that the Canadian pedigree can be traced back to animals
duly registered in the Suffolk Stud Book of Great Britain or the American Suffolk Horse Stud Book.
4. Any Suffolk stallion or mare registered in the Suffolk Stud Book of Great Britain, when presented for registry in the American Suffolk Horse Stud Book, must be
registered in the name which such animal bears in the Suffolk Stud Book of Great Britain.

as a Suffolk is imported from the SHS, it's sire and dam can be put in the ASHA data base, so that one can see the bloodlines .
DNA is done on the imported Suffolk, if none was done with the SHS, so that all offspring can be DNA for parents verified as the of the rule change by the ASHA started on 01.01.2003.
8. An application for registry of an animal must be signed by the owner of the sire at time of service as well as the owner of the dam at the time of service. The breeder of
an animal is the recorded owner of the dam at the time of service and dictates the cross. The first owner of a foal is the recorded owner of the dam at the time the foal is
dropped. Effective January 1, 2003, all horses submitted for registration must be DNA typed and Parentage Verified before an animal can be eligible for registration.

The reason ASHA secretary Zelda Gagliardi posted the Texas A&M case #55817 for Eyke Sovereign was to clear up some confusion as to whether this imported stallion was parentage verified via DNA. As this report shows he was not because his dam and sire were "Not Typed" which means no DNA records.

It was recently discovered that if you searched Eyke Sovereign in the on-line stud book it had Eyke listed as"Fully Verified". That was incorrect and has been corrected.

There is no danger that Eyke or his many offspring will have their registration revoked. As Rodney has pointed out above any English stallion out of a mare and a stallion recorded in the Suffolk Stud Book of Great Britain is eligible for registration in the American Suffolk Horse Stud Book.

Ken Laing Vice-President the ASHA