Registration Application
The form that opens the book to your horse. One application per horse; the $45 fee covers the Texas A&M DNA test and your certificate.
Registry services
Get your Lippitt on the record.
Registration is $45 complete: DNA testing through Texas A&M and the certificate included, with no penalty for older horses. Every form you need is on this page, ready to read, download, and print. Every Lippitt entered is one more the breed cannot lose.
Why it matters
A registry is how a rare breed survives.
A Lippitt Morgan is identified as a Lippitt by its DNA, not by which organization’s seal is on its papers. What a registry adds is verification: an official record that a qualified laboratory has examined the horse’s DNA, confirmed the breed, and confirmed the parentage — this sire, this dam. For a breed of fewer than 2,000, that record is the difference between a bloodline preserved and a bloodline lost.
TLMHR, Inc. runs the same DNA testing used by the national registry, through the Animal Genetics Laboratory at Texas A&M, for considerably less. Registration with TLMHR does not replace or conflict with AMHA registration; many owners do both. Note that a TLMHR registration is not an automatic dual registration with the AMHA. Registering with the national registry is done separately at www.morganhorse.com. Horses registered here are Morgans through DNA testing and belong to the Lippitt Morgan horse family.
How registration works
- Step one
- Print the registration application and the DNA kit & instructions; all three are in the document drawer below. No printer? The registrar will gladly mail them.
- Step two
- Pull mane or tail hair per the instructions (roots on, never cut), tape it to the kit sheet, and mail everything with the $45 fee.
- Step three
- The DNA is run at Texas A&M, parentage is confirmed against the database, and your certificate is issued.
The document drawer
Every form, ready when you are.
Read any document on screen before you commit a sheet of paper, or download it straight to your machine. All forms are filled out by hand and returned to the registrar by mail.
To register a horse
DNA Kit — Pulled Hair Sample Form
Print this sheet, pull 25–50 mane or tail hairs with the roots intact, and tape them where marked. It travels in the envelope with your application.
DNA Instructions — Obtaining Equine Hair
Two pages on pulling and packaging the hair sample properly, so it arrives at the laboratory fit for typing. Read this before you go to the barn.
To transfer or lease
Transfer of Ownership Application
When a registered Lippitt changes hands, this form moves the record with it. The papers go with the horse. Every time.
Lease Agreement
Puts a lease of a mare or stallion on the record, so foals born during the lease can be registered without a tangle over who signs.
To record your prefix
Prefix Application
Your farm’s name, protected in the book and reserved for your breeding program alone, at the introductory rate.
Fee schedule
Plain fees, posted plainly.
Registration — DNA & certificate complete$45
Transfer of ownership$20
Prefix recording (introductory)$25
Lease agreement$20
Enter existing AMHA DNA markers in the database$5
New DNA marker report (hair pull)$25
No membership. No dues. No penalty for registering older horses. Every application is in the document drawer above, or from the registrar: debsiegrist2@gmail.com
Lost Lippitts
Help us find the ones that slipped away.
A fair number of Lippitts are “lost”: alive somewhere, but off the record, and the number is growing. Every DNA marker report in our database makes the search cheaper and surer for everyone, because a found horse can be matched against the whole family at cost.
If you own a Lippitt, you can help for the price of lunch: donate your horse’s AMHA DNA marker report (the report costs you $15, plus $5 to enter it in our Texas A&M database), or pull hair for a fresh marker report at $25. The end result, every time it works, is a lost Lippitt returned to the family.
Registration papers
Papers are legal documents. Treat them like it.
Your Lippitt’s registration papers state, in law, that the horse is who you say it is. Keep them safe. If papers are misplaced or lost, report it to TLMHR at once so the registry can address what might be done. In an era of Morgan fraud, maintaining your horse’s registration integrity protects every honest breeder.
When you sell your Lippitt, the registration papers go with the horse. Every time. No exceptions worth making.
What TLMHR is — and is not
A registry, not a club.
TLMHR, Inc. is a repository of breed information: a registrar, a board of directors, a DNA database, and the pedigrees, kept as complete as we can make them. It has no members and organizes no activities; it is a non-political 501(c)(3), the only Lippitt Morgan entity with that status, and it intends to stay that way.
It does not compete with the national registry, nor with The Lippitt Club or the Lippitt Morgan Breeders Association; those are fine organizations of people. TLMHR is about the horse: evidence-based records, competently and ethically kept. Owners remain free to register wherever they choose, and many register both here and with AMHA.
The Lippitt Morgan Horse Registry, Inc. is not affiliated with any other “Lippitt Morgan” group or registry. TLMHR registrations are not automatic dual registrations with the American Morgan Horse Association; to register your Lippitt with the AMHA, visit www.morganhorse.com.
The registry will maintain an aggressive presence in the eye of the public via exhibitions, the use of the internet, and providing assistance in rescues, as well as providing educational materials upon request.
This year’s foals belong in the book