History

​The gelding Section ‘E’ first opened to registrations in 1949, and saw geldings from all pure bred sections of the stud book registered with a separate gelding number, preceded by ‘G.’ which was unique to the gelding register. Within the Welsh Part-bred register, the same system was used and applied to the Welsh Part-Bred geldings. More recently, the notations of ‘WG’ have been used for pure-bred geldings, and ‘PG’ for Part-Bred to avoid confusion. At one time, all geldings would be entered into the gelding register – and allocated a gelding studbook number. This included animals initially registered as colts and stallions in their main stud book register and given stallion registration numbers. However, more recently, with the advent of passports and the UELN, together with more stringent regulations surrounding these, today when a colt who was previously registered in the main stud book with a stallion number is castrated, the passport is updated to show that the animal has been castrated by stamping it ‘GELDING’, and he retains the stallion number instead of being reallocated a ‘WG’ or ‘PG’ number. Only geldings that are being registered and passported for the first time are now given the ‘WG’ and ‘PG.’

 

Uses

​The Welsh Geldings are equally as versatile as their stallion and mare equals and can turn their hoof to all manner of performance tasks. Geldings of the smaller sections are particularly popular leading rein and first ridden ponies, with a trainable and kind nature yet they retain the Welsh character making them such well renown the world over. Equally, geldings have proven to be as capable harness animals as stallions, and the Welsh Gelding classes held annually at the Royal Welsh Show offering a WPCS in hand Gold Medal to the champion exhibit have proven to be incredibly popular since their inception.