REMINDER SPARKS UK – registration of foals and payment of SPARKS grants in 2024

As previously announced, the Shire Horse Society will start paying its new SPARKS Grants this year. The grants are payable to breeders on successful registration of pure-bred Shire foals in 2024 from green and yellow matings that took place last year based on the UK SPARKS Kinship Tables for 2023.

Green matings at least £200
Yellow matings at least £100

Members are reminded that the Grants will only be paid where the application for registration of the foal arrives at the Society's office before or on 31st October 2024, the deadline day for applications, and is accepted by the Society. Grants will not be paid for late registrations.

Members are also reminded of the other conditions that apply to the Grants, also as previously announced:

- Grants are payable for foals bred in the UK, whether by natural mating or AI.

- The application for registration is for a pure-bred Shire foal in “full book.”
- Grants are payable for Shire pure-bred colt foals where the registration application is for Non-Breeding, subject to DNA parentage verification.
- Grants will only be paid to individuals who are fully paid-up UK-resident members of the Society at the time of application to register the foal.
- The grant is paid to the person identified as the breeder of the foal on the registration application form.

Note: the “registration form” is the document titled “Identification Document and Pedigree Certificate.”

For any queries, contact the Society’s office 01536 771611 or info@shire-horse.org.uk