SECTION VIII. LEASES & CERTIFICATES OF ELIGIBILTY TO SHOW
A. LEASES
For a lease of a horse to be recognized by the Registry, written notice of its existence must be filed with the Registry office signed by both lessor and lessee, with all applicable fees. The notice must provide the effective date of lease and may provide a termination date. Otherwise, it may be terminated by written notice, giving termination date, signed by both lessor and lessee or by a properly executed transfer which shows a change of ownership from lessor to lessee. The notice must identify the horse to which the lease is applicable.
1. Recording notice of lease authorizes a lessee to execute all documents in accordance with the terms of the lease. Enforcement against the lessee of limitation on use of the horse is solely the responsibility of the lessor.
SECTION III. REGISTRATION
H. NAMES
1. Each animal for which Application for Registration is made must be given an acceptable name which does not conflict with the name of any other animal registered with the Registry, living or dead. A conflicting name is one which is judged to be too similar to an existing name either in spelling or pronunciation, e.g., Black Knight/ Black Night. The Registry shall consider waiving this requirement for horses with the same or similar names with a foaling date of 40 years or more ago and do not have show records and do not have registered progeny.
2. The name may not exceed 35 characters, including letters, spaces and punctuation.
3. Three name choices must be provided on the application in order of owner’s preference.
4. The Registry reserves the right to accept or reject any or all of the names submitted, whether for reasons of conflict or good taste, and also reserves the right to correct obvious misspellings.
5. The following are not allowed as part of a horse’s name:
a. Numerical prefixes or suffixes: Numerals;
b. “Jr.” and “Sr.” as suffixes;
c. Diacritical marks;
d. Punctuation marks as prefixes;
e. Initials added as a prefix or suffix to a name already in use, e.g. Wing Commander G.G.