Welcome to International Rescue Horse Registry 2024!
The saved and their saviors deserve recognition too!
Who We Are
In 2010 Sonja Reuter and Anna Schriebl founded Diamonds in the Rough Rescue, a 501c3 nonprofit based in Windsor, VA. One of the goals of the rescue, was to provide a registry that gave rescue horses a permanent identity. To get the registry side up and running sooner, in 2012, Anna Schriebl started the IRHR under her business, Patriot Farms. This year, the IRHR has come home, and is under the umbrella of DITR. The IRHR affords the wonderful people who give new life to abused and rescued horses a chance to register them (even if the pedigree is unknown) and earn year end awards and scholarships. The IRHR has an all-volunteer staff and there are no paid positions. All membership funds go to IRHR to pay for associated expenses, with residual funds going to support rescue efforts.
New for this year!
In an effort to offer continued protection and ensure identification of IRHR horses, starting in 2025 all registry horses will be required to be microchipped. It can either be a chip that you get from your vet, or one that we provide for your vet to implant. Our chips include lifetime registration with the Equine Protection Registry: The Equine Protection Registry • Microchip ID Systems | Equine Division (microchipidequine.com). More information will be forthcoming for horses already chipped, and those that will need one.
What We Consider a Rescue Horse
For the purposes of our registry, a rescue can come from a rescue organization, be a "mercy buy," or be a horse that you personally rescued from a dire situation. Your submission of the registration form verifies your horse's rescue history is true.
Year End Awards Program
Our awards program allows you to compete locally or nationally for recognition. We are a US Dressage Federation All-Breeds Award participating registry and are working with other federations as well to obtain recognition of our registry. If you are interested in competing for USDF All Breeds Awards, please ensure you follow the USDF guidelines to be eligible. You
will need to be a USDF member and your horse must have USDF Lifetime Registration, with IRHR being the breed on the registration. The IRHR pays USDF for the program, however, the USDF administers the program and sets the rules. You must declare your horse as an IRHR horse with the USDF each year.
The competition year runs from December 1st of the previous year, to November 30th of the current year. More information can be found at: https://www.usdf.org/awards/all-breeds/all-breeds.asp
If you choose to compete locally, you are still eligible for IRHR year-end awards. We accept score sheets, newsletter articles, web site entries, or show results sheets as proof of your participation. We have year-end awards for the disciplines listed below. If your discipline is not listed, please let us know and we will include it. The competition year for members that show locally is from January 1st to December 31st of the current year.
Competitive Trail, Dressage, Hunter, English Pleasure, Jumper, Eventing, Driving, Western Pleasure, Saddle seat, Team Roping, Reining, Western Dressage, Team Penning/Cutting/Cattle Horse Events, Barrel Racing, Para-Equestrian, Showing In-Hand/Halter/Hunter Breeding/Sport Horse Breeding, Therapy Horse, Pasture Pal/Companion Animal.
Membership and Horse Registration
You can join online at www.adoptditr.com or by emailing rescue.ditr@gmail.com for an application. Yearly membership is $50.00. Lifetime horse registration is $50.00. Our membership year runs from January to December of each year.
Participation in one discipline at one level for one horse in our IRHR year-end awards program, is included in the yearly membership fee. Additional disciplines are $25 each per horse. Regardless of when you join in the year, scores earned the entire year count for year-end awards.
Please email us at rescue.ditr@gmail.com or call 757.619.6089 if you have any questions. Also, please be sure to check your email junk/spam folder if you don't get emails from the IRHR as sometimes they go there, and must be added to your safe sender's list. Please don't forget to like our Facebook page: International Rescue Horse Registry, LLC.
Thank you so much for saving a horse and joining our organization!
God bless and good riding,
Annmarie Stark
Executive Director
International Rescue Horse Registry