The AEGRC provides the following parentage typing services to horse breed Registries:
The AEGRC offers DNA typing to all horse Breed Societies. If you are interested in having your Breed Society's DNA typing performed by the AEGRC, please contact the Australian Stud Book (studbook@ajc.org.au).
Wherever possible, horses that have been previously parentage verified by blood typing should be DNA typed so that any foals that they produce can be parentage verified.
We strongly advise all Breed Societies to ensure that all breeding stock are DNA typed. This will require that Breed Societies either collect and submit new hair samples or authorize us to test (activate) stored buffy coat samples. While we prefer to obtain these requests electronically, forms for DNA typing and for Activation of Buffy coat samples can be downloaded from The Library/Policies and Forms page.
Buffy coat samples have been collected and stored frozen from many breeds of horses. See the attached document to check if we are holding buffy coat samples for your valuable breeding stock.
Others Services offered:
This services are based on the blood group profiles of horses previously blood typed for parentage verification purposes. As DNA typing replaced blood typing for parentage verification in 2003, most registered female Thoroughbred horses born in Australia before 2002 should have blood types which are stored on the AEGRC parentage database. Unfortunately, DNA types cannot be used to identify or predict blood types. As time passes fewer horses will have stored blood-group records which form the basis of the predictive tests for suitability as blood donors and potential to produce foals with NI.
Please note that this predictive tests are subject to various fees.