Updated figures of passport applications processed on Horse Source – March 21st, 2025

Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) has now issued 5600 foal passports to breeders through the Horse Source online passporting system.

Through the week ending March 7th; from the 5600 completed foal passports, 5176 are pedigree applications. This comes from a total of 6977 applications, which also includes non-pedigree applications. The number of non-pedigree applications completed is now 546.

It is important to note that, to date, 597 foal kits have been returned from breeders to HSI for pedigree applications, with the 5176 pedigree foal passports issued to breeders equating to 88% of pedigree applications having passports issued, where DNA has been provided by customers.

9% 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 98% 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 83 applications in progress being processed by the HSI registrations team, where DNA samples have been returned to HSI from the laboratory.