The office can send a Xerox of your horse’s papers for temporary use if you think you may find the original. If you are certain that the original is destroyed or will never be found, you may request a duplicate registration certificate. To do this, you will need to . Send the photographs along with a certified statement explaining how the papers came to be lost or destroyed and promising to turn them in for cancellation if they are ever found, a fee of $100 and a duplicate certificate will be processed. Since duplicates also require the signature of the Chairman of Registration it will take several weeks to receive your new certificate. If there has also been a change in ownership, the certified statement of loss must come from the person who lost the registration certificate and you will need a bill of sale or several showing an unbroken chain of ownership from the owner listed in our records to you.