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Equine Register

Cirencester company that runs the UK Central Equine Database for Defra and supplies digital passport, microchip and traceability tools to owners, vets and livery yards.

Category
Software and data
Country
United Kingdom
Head office
Cirencester

What it supplies

Equine Register Ltd is based at the Alliston Centre in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. It states that it runs the UK Central Equine Database (CED) and the National ChipChecker on behalf of Defra, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Its home page says the CED holds records for 1.8 million equines and their owners.

Its products include Digital Stable, where owners claim equine passports and request changes to CED records; a Digital Vet App for RCVS-registered vets to identify horses and add microchips; Digital Smartcards that hold live equine passports on phones; Digital Livery for livery yards managing passports; and audit receipts for farriers, dentists and physiotherapists. The company also lists traceability and biosecurity tools for government and border agencies.

Products and services

  • Central Equine Database (operated for Defra)
  • National ChipChecker
  • Digital Stable for owners
  • Digital Vet App
  • Digital Smartcards (digital equine passports)
  • Digital Livery for livery yards
  • Audit receipts for farriers, dentists and physiotherapists

Clients it names

  • Defra

As stated by the supplier on its own website. Equanine has not checked these with the clients.

Sources

Details are taken from the pages on its own website listed below. Regulatory status is shown only where the supplier or the regulator states it. Listing last checked 17 October 2026.

  1. Equine Register, home page
  2. Equine Register, About us
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