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Blood Typing Notice

The American Saddlebred Registry Board of Directors has approved removal of all references to blood typing in the ASR Rules and Regulations effective immediately. This is necessary as the University of Kentucky Gluck Lab is no longer offering equine blood typing for parentage analysis and was the last lab to offer this service.  This will not affect DNA testing using hair samples or conversions to DNA using frozen serum samples.  The UK Lab has frozen serum samples stored for all horses blood typed with them since 1992.  The Registry has not registered horses using blood typing in the last two years.

Following is a copy of the notice on the UK Lab’s website:

IMPORTANT NOTICE! Genetic Testing at Gluck will no longer offer Traditional Blood Typing for parentage verification after April 30. The last lab to offer horse blood typing for parentage verification, blood typing has not been recognized as an acceptable method for parentage verification since 2001. Genetic Testing at Gluck continued to offer the test in order to facilitate registration of horses whose parents were deceased and unavailable for DNA testing.  With the pending retirement of the technician who performs blood typing and decreased demand, we have made the decision not to invest the time to train additional personnel in this technology.