Registration

• Each approved registration will receive colored and embossed papers with up to three generations (if provided), welcome packet and transfer documents.
•  IQPA recognizes the need to be able to use ponies of other breed types to help enhance the looks, size, & abilities of Quarter Ponies.  Therefore, no special approval is required if one parent is registered with an approved breed registry: IQPA, AQHA, APHA, ApHC, APPR or POA.  This gives breeders the flexibility to cross on other recognized breeds without having to register all their breeding stock with IQPA.
• NOT ELIGBLE: Gated ponies or ponies with gated parents. Ponies with less than 25% approved breed bloodlines. Ponies over 14.2 hand or 58" regardless of parents' registration.
• Non-Members of QPA, add $15 to each transaction.  All funds are US Dollars.

Standard Registry Requirements: 

• Ponies must exhibit good quarter type conformation and disposition desirable for breeding. If registering in the same year of the ponies' birth, you will receive a discount.  (See "Weanling Registry" below.)
• Ponies must be not be over 14.2 Hands (58 inches / 147.32 centimeters), measured to the highest point of the withers.
• Ponies qualifying for Standard Registration must have at least one parent registered with IQPA, AQHA, APHA, ApHC, APPR or POA.  
• Ponies under 5 (five) years of age will need to submit an Official Height each year they show until they reach 5 (five) years of age.  

Weanling Registry Requirements: 

• All the same requirements as "Standard Registry" above.
• To encourage registration at birth, a discount will be given for ponies registered in the same year of their birth.
• Hardship and Breeding Stock ponies do not qualify for this discount.

Hardship Registry Requirements: 

• Hardship Registration is for ponies where both parents are unknown or not with an approved registry. 
• Ponies must exhibit good quarter type conformation & disposition desirable for breeding as determined by the Registration Committee.
• The Owner will give your pony a score determining the % of quarter believed to be carried by your pony. (Ponies with less than 25% are not eligible for registration.) If there is any doubt, the Owner may request additional photos or a video.  
• Ponies must be not be over 14.2 Hands (58 Inches / 147.32 Centimeters), measured to the highest point of the withers.
• Ponies qualified for Hardship Registration under 5 (five) years of age will need to submit an Official Height each year they show until they reach 5 (five) years of age.  

Breeding Stock Registry Requirements: 

•  All ponies or horses who would qualify for Standard/Weanling Registry papers, but are over 14.2hh (58") are eligible for registration in the Breeding Stock Registry. 
• Ponies holding "Temporary Papers"  but are over-height during or prior to their fifth (5th) year, will receive Breeding Stock Registry papers.  

• When ownership of a registered Pony is transferred, the seller shall deliver the Registration papers to the buyer together with a transfer form. 
• The transfer form needs to be filled out in its entirety, signed and dated. 

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Frequently asked questions coming soon.