Updated figures of passport applications processed on Horse Source – March 28th, 2025

Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) has now issued 5758 foal passports to breeders through the Horse Source online passporting system.

Through the week ending March 28th; from the 5758 completed foal passports, 5320 are pedigree applications. This comes from a total of 7027 applications, which also includes non-pedigree applications. The number of non-pedigree applications completed is now 438.

It is important to note that, to date, 559 foal kits have not been returned from breeders to HSI for pedigree applications, with the 5320 pedigree foal passports issued to breeders equating to 90% 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 97% 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 170 applications in progress being processed by the HSI registrations team, where DNA samples have been returned to HSI from the laboratory.