Especially with older passports, the UELN is sometimes difficult to find out. These tips will help you find the right UELN.
A UELN number: always consists of 15 consecutive characters. These are generally numbers, sometimes in combination with one or more letters. Never dashes, dots or spaces. In EquineM (but also in the PaReg app) we check all entered UELN and automatically remove all dashes, dots, commas, spaces and all other characters that are not letters or numbers.
Dutch studbooks
- Click here for the database of the RVO to look up horses registered in the Netherlands. Then click on the word ‘search function’ in the chapter ‘Rules and Points of attention’.
- as far as we know, the life number and UELN number are the same in all Dutch studbooks. It always starts with 528 … XXXX ….. or NL … XXXX …..
- XXXX stands for year. The 3 dots before the year form the number for the studbook. The 5 dots behind it form the horse’s unique number.
Belgian studbooks
- search for horse data in the Belgian database
- Zangersheide has the same UELN number and life number. 056015Z……XX (dots is the unique number of the horse, XX last digits of year of birth
- BWP has UELN and life number equal: 056002W…….. (dots represent the horse’s unique number, not a year)
- SBS has UELN and life number right: 056007000X….. (the X is a letter that corresponds to a year, the dots form the unique number)
German studbooks
Search for horse data in the German database. Unfortunately you will not find any UELN numbers here. You can usually replace the letters DE in the 12-digit life number with the numbers 276.
French studbooks
Information on French horses can be found on the website of the IFCE
AES Studbook (England)
