Updated figures of passport applications processed on Horse Source – April 4th, 2025

Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) has now issued 5935 foal passports to breeders through the Horse Source online passporting system.

Through the week ending April 4th; from the 5935 completed foal passports, 5472 are pedigree applications. This comes from a total of 7079 applications, which also includes non-pedigree applications. The number of non-pedigree applications completed is now 463.

It is important to note that, to date, 541 foal kits have not been returned from breeders to HSI for pedigree applications, with the 5472 pedigree foal passports issued to breeders equating to 92% of pedigree applications having passports issued, where DNA has been provided by customers.

8% of DNA Kits have not been returned to HSI from breeders. Once these are received, they can be sent to the laboratory and the applications processed and completed.

HSI has processed 99% of applications that have DNA results back from the laboratory and the remainder are currently being quality control-checked, ahead of being processed.

There are currently just 40 applications in progress being processed by the HSI registrations team, where DNA samples have been returned to HSI from the laboratory.

HSI would like to advise that updated passport figures for 2024 will be published for the final time on the 18th of April. From the 2nd of May, we will begin publishing figures for the 2025 breeding season.