Branding on horses

[Livinthedream]

Hi, by the sounds of it, your boy is a standardbred (a trotter or pacer),the brand you describe is called a freeze brand and would be under his mane yes?. I will go google standardbred australia and see what happens , never looked up a trotters brand before, but done plenty of racehorses

Australian Harness Racing
Go to search, and select horse search (HRA online)
Select freezebrand and that will tell you how to read it.
Goodluck and let me know if you cant make sense of it.

[Miss.September]

Great! Thank you!

He's a standardbred, ex trotter. The brand is under his mane. I worked out the chart and have figured out that he was registered in Victoria and that he was born in 1981, which would put him older than I thought!!!! Makes him 30! My goodness!

Now that I know what the brand says, can I find out any other info on him? Where would I start?

[Livinthedream]

Now that you know how to read and convert the brand, can you not go to the search and just punch in all the numbers?
Ie, step 2, after the home page, the search page gives you the option of entering exact name, or general name search or freezebrand.
Just put in all the numbers that the freezebrand is and this should give you all his info.
HTH

[NaeNae]

My QH is branded but I have no idea what it means

[Miss.September]

Livinthedream - It came up with no listing, so either he's too old, or I'm getting the brand wrong.

NaeNae - I took a close up photo of the brand so I could work out what all the symbols meant and then put it into the site Livinthedream gave me. Is there a quarter horse branding listing, or something? Is it on the leg or neck? I think the two letter/number ones on the leg are a brand from the stable they came from, but I could be wrong.

I've found it really interesting. It's been something I've wondered since I got him. I'll have to find a pic of my TB and see if I can work out his brand too.

[LuluHB]

Given his age his records may not have been put onto computer. Might be worth phoning whatever the Victorian equivalent of the Racing and Pacing Association is. I found out heaps of details about a thoroughbred mare I had years ago - right back through her racing history, her parents' racing history etc.

My memory is very dodgy on these things, but I think the standard brand used for most breeds (not standardbreds) of numbers/letters over each other is the numbers showing the year of birth and whichever number foal your horse is of its dam. The letters are usually indicating the stud that bred the horse. I can't remember whether its year of birth over foal number, or vice versa though.

[Miss.September]

Thanks LuluHB. He's such an old boy now, I'm pleased I know this much but very curious to see if I can find out more.

I've heard that too, with most horses that it's something to do with the foal number.