Find Studbook or Breed Society contact details using UELNs

This article will explain how you can find out which Breed Society in Canada issued a Unique Equine Life Number (UELN).

If the UELN starts with the numbers 124, the UELN was issued by a Breed Society in Canada. The subsequent three numbers denote the Breed Society.

The table below provides a list of all Breed Societies in Canada and their unique prefix number.

UELN (First 6 Digits)	Breed Society Name

124 001	Canadian Arabian Horse Registry
124 002	Canadian Sport Horse Association
124 003	Equestrian Canada
124 004	Canadian Icelandic Horse Federation
124 005	Standardbred Canada
124 006	AWR: For Canadian AWR only
124 007	KWPN - NA: code for horses born in Canada
124 008	American Saddlebred Horse Association of Canada
124 009	Société des Eleveurs de Chevaux Canadiens
124 010	Clydesdale Horse Association of Canada
124 011	Canadian Fjord Horse Association
124 012	Canadian Hackney Society
124 013	Canadian Haflinger Association
124 014	Canadian Morgan Horse Association, Inc.
124 015	Miniature Horse Association of Canada
124 016	Canadian Palomino Horse Association
124 017	Canadian Percheron Association
124 018	Peruvian Horse Association of Canada
124 019	Canadian Pony Society
124 020	Canadian Registry of the Tenessee Walking Horse
124 021	Canadian Trakehner Horse Society
124 022	Welsh Pony & Cob Society of Canada
124 023	Canadian Warmblood Horse Breeders Association
124 024	Appaloosa Horse Club of Canada
124 025	Oldenburg Registry N.A. : Code for horses born in Canada only
124 026	ISR Pony: Code for Ponies born in Canada only
124 027	Irish Draught Horse Society of Canada
124 028	PAHR: code for Arabs born in Canada only
124 029	AHHA: Code for Holsteiner horses born in Canada only
124 030	AHS: Code for a Hanoverian horse born in Canada only
124 031	Friesian Horse Society Inc.
124 999	Code for horses identified by the Canadian Identification Project
124 CAN	The Jockey Club of America (Canadian TB only)

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