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    Sounds like you'll hit the peak foliage at that time. 
    
    In most cases, events that require you to sign up state that the entry
    form must be accompanied by a copy of your coggins test.  Did you
    notice anything like that on your entry form?

    I believe the general coggins rule at least in Mass is that you 
    need a coggins within 1 year for instate travel and within 6 months
    for out of state travel.  That's how it is when I race in Maine.
    Be careful too, I've known people who have been pulled over by the
    state police who want to see your coggins!
    
    Linda

    Your mileage may vary but...
    
    I've never had show officials ask to see Coggins or vaccination
    certificates *anywhere*. When we lived in the east, we showed in NH,
    VT(including GMHA), MA, NJ and NY. Usually, you just enter that info 
    on your entry form.
    
    I also never found any "official" place to stop and show papers on
    entering a state. In most states, there's just too many roads to have
    a sort of customs office at the borders. However, the cops will 
    sometimes stop horse trailers and make routine health paper checks.
    
    Some states do have a Coggins within 6 months requirement. Because our
    show season in NH was limited to basically May-October, we got our
    annual Coggins tests in mid-late April which covered us through
    the show season.
    
    John
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    When I was riding in shows and trail rides etc, I was rarely asked
    for a coggins.  When taking a horse to Foxboro Park to race, train
    or board, you will be turned away at the door without a coggins.  
    During racing season when they come around to check tatoos, which
    is every time you race, they will remind you if you are close to
    needing a new coggins.  Better safe than sorry.
    
    Linda

    I've been asked at a few shows, but very few.  Most of the organized
    trail rides I do in NH don't even require it, much less ask to see
    proof of it.  Yet when I used to trailer Thoroughbreds in and out of
    Rockingham racetrack, I had to show paperwork provided by the horse's
    owner everytime I brought one in...I believe a Coggins was part of
    that paperwork although I never really looked through any of it.
    Getting the horse out was a different story...all they did was ask
    for the name of the horse, look in the trailer to count heads, and
    send you off. I trailered these horses from Mass to Rockingham (Salem
    NH) many times, and never once was I stopped by the police checking
    paperwork.
    
    What is the ride you are doing?? Is that the 50 miler held every fall?
    
    Linda
    

    
    The ride I am doing is the GMHA fall ride. It's 7 days long. we will
    be staying the whole 7 days. We allready booked our place of
    lodging in January (you have to do this a yr in advance) and we
    have stalls at the Green Mountain Forest.
    
    We will send a copy of our coggins w/ the entry form, my coggins will
    be 7mo old at the time of the ride... and some states require  that
    the coggins be 6mo or less .. and some states a year is okay.
    
    So if, Vermont is a 6mo state..then I miss it by 1 mounth...(bummer)
    that is why I am hoping that a 7mo to 1yr old coggins is okay for
    Vermont.
    
    Is anyone else doing the Vermont ride?
    
    Lou
    
    

    My vet tells me that in Mass. the law is that you only need a coggins
    every two years, she can't understand why some shows (all shows as far
    as I can see) ask for it to be with a year.  This really messed me up
    when I had to have her out special in July just so I could go to a
    show.  She said I would only need it one year to go out of state.
    
    Sharon

    Check out Note 417 on vaccinations/coggins for showing too. It
    discusses various N.E. requirements
    

	I have shown my horses thru out New England, New York, PA, and Del. 
Most states require a 6 month coggins for out of state travelers, including 
Vermont. Vermont also requires a health certificate for your horse. I have 
never been stopped and asked to show my coggins or health certificates but have 
heard of other people being stopped. The shows I have attended, have asked to 
see the coggins and health certificates. 

    I believe GMHA requires a current (within 6 months) Coggins.  I have
    to send one in every time we show.  My mare is going to VT on a 1 year
    old coggins...but she's going to a breeding farm.  They require a whole
    slew of other stuff, but a year old coggins was fine.  
    
    I did go to a small show in Brimfield MA last year where they checked
    Coggins as you entered the grounds.  Unfortunatly I had a coggins for 
    the wrong horse...but they let me in.  But said next year to have it 
    straight.  I was lucky, but next time I might not be.  Like some of the
    others, my coggins are planned for the 6 month show season.  

    The veterinarian who was doing some shots at our farm last night
    had just received his coggins requirements for New Hampshire yesterday
    and you are required to have a coggins test every six months travelling
    in-state in New Hampshire now.
    
    Karen