ICSC announce inclusion of P2P winners in catalogues

The International Cataloguing Standards Committee (ICSC) European sub- committee has announced a change to the treatment of point-to-point performances in Sale Company catalogues. Currently, winning British and Irish point-to-point performers are classified as runners, but not as winners in either the subject horse detail or the dam summary line. For catalogues produced after 01/01/2022 this will change with point-to-point performances classed as wins in catalogues for sales which are designated to be ‘National Hunt’ sales. To facilitate this change there have been some further rule alterations to National Hunt catalogues. Sale catalogues which are designated ‘flat’ will continue to not treat winning point-to-point performances as wins.

Point to Point Cataloguing Rule Change

• Creation of two types of sale classification (Flat and National Hunt). Designation of ‘mixed’ and ‘Horses in Training’ sales to be at the discretion of the sale company.
  • An entire segment of a sale would have to be classified either Flat or National Hunt for cataloguing purposes, though distinct segments of the same sale could have different statuses.
• Under the proposal National Hunt sale pedigrees would change and list ALL form- Flat, National Hunt, point-to-point AND WILL RECOGNISE HORSES THAT HAVE WON A GB/IRE POINT-TO-POINT AS WINNERS, when listing the number of runners and winners in a mare’s progeny summary. 
• Showing Point-to-Point runners and winners means that ALL winners under the first dam, or broodmare record, must be shown in National Hunt Catalogues in order that buyers can see the breakdown of point to point and rules winners.
• Catalogues designated as Flat would remain the same as current flat catalogue outputs and that Point-to-Point winners will NOT be classed as winners in these catalogues, though if a Dam ran in a point to point the sale company would have the option to class them as runners.
• All catalogues will show Flat black type in normal bold font and NH black type in Italics.  (If a horse has both, the style most relevant to the catalogue should apply).
• The rule change when implemented on 01/01/22 will be retrospective and include all Point-to-Point form held on the Weatherbys Bloodstock database.

Simon Kerins (Tattersalls Ireland) and Nick Nugent (Goffs) both jointly commented:

“This rule change gives greater clarity around the presentation of form in National Hunt catalogues. It addresses the clear anomaly whereby catalogues have listed any point-to-point performers to be runners for the dam, but do not consider a winner of such a contest to be a winner for the mare.”