Get your Lippitt on the record.
Registration is $45 complete — DNA testing through Texas A&M and the certificate included. There is no penalty for registering an older horse. Every Lippitt entered is one more the breed cannot lose.
A registry is how a rare breed survives.
A Lippitt Morgan is identified as a Lippitt by its DNA — not by which organization’s seal is on its papers. What a registry adds is verification: an official record that a qualified laboratory has examined the horse’s DNA, confirmed the breed, and confirmed the parentage — this sire, this dam. For a breed of fewer than 2,000, that record is the difference between a bloodline preserved and a bloodline lost.
TLMHR, Inc. runs the same DNA testing used by the national registry — through the Animal Genetics Laboratory at Texas A&M — for considerably less. Registration with TLMHR does not replace or conflict with AMHA registration; many owners do both. Horses registered here are Morgans through DNA testing and belong to the Lippitt Morgan horse family.
How registration works
- Step one
- Email the registrar at [email protected] for the registration application and DNA instructions.
- Step two
- Pull mane or tail hair per the instructions and return it with your application and the $45 fee.
- Step three
- The DNA is run at Texas A&M, parentage is confirmed against the database, and your certificate is issued.
Plain fees, posted plainly.
No membership. No dues. No penalty for registering older horses. Applications for registration, transfer, prefix, and lease are available from the registrar: [email protected]
Help us find the ones that slipped away.
A fair number of Lippitts are “lost” — alive somewhere, but off the record, and the number is growing. Every DNA marker report in our database makes the search cheaper and surer for everyone, because a found horse can be matched against the whole family at cost.
If you own a Lippitt, you can help for the price of lunch: donate your horse’s AMHA DNA marker report (the report costs you $15, plus $5 to enter it in our Texas A&M database), or pull hair for a fresh marker report at $25. The end result, every time it works, is a lost Lippitt returned to the family.
Papers are legal documents. Treat them like it.
Your Lippitt’s registration papers state, in law, that the horse is who you say it is. Keep them safe. If papers are misplaced or lost, report it to TLMHR at once so the registry can address what might be done — in an era of Morgan fraud, maintaining your horse’s registration integrity protects every honest breeder.
When you sell your Lippitt, the registration papers go with the horse. Every time. No exceptions worth making.
A registry, not a club.
TLMHR, Inc. is a repository of breed information: a registrar, a board of directors, a DNA database, and the pedigrees — kept as complete as we can make them. It has no members and organizes no activities; it is a non-political 501(c)(3), the only Lippitt Morgan entity with that status, and it intends to stay that way.
It does not compete with the national registry, nor with The Lippitt Club or the Lippitt Morgan Breeders Association — those are fine organizations of people. TLMHR is about the horse: evidence-based records, competently and ethically kept. Owners remain free to register wherever they choose, and many register both here and with AMHA.