The Tinker

The Tinker

The Tinker Studbook (Netherlands)

Although by the mid-1990s, hundreds of unregistered Irish Cobs from Ireland had already been imported into the Netherlands, it is because it was not made known by Ireland to the other EU Member States (in accordance with Article 5 of Council Directive 90/427/EEC) that The Irish Cob Society (ICS) was officially recognised in Ireland in July 1998 and by the Commission of the European Union (EU) as the breed society which was approved to maintain the Irish Cob Studbook as the EU studbook of the origin of the breed (the EU ‘Mother’ Irish Cob Studbook), that in October 1999 the Nederlands Stamboek voor Tinkers (NSvT) was officially recognised in the Netherlands and by the Commission of the European Union (EU) as the breed society that was approved to maintain the Nederlands Stamboek voor Tinkers (NSvT) as the EU studbook of the origin of the breed (the EU ‘Mother’ Tinker Studbook).

NOTE: When the Nederlands Stamboek voor Tinkers (NSvT) gave Ireland's Irish Cob the second officially recognised breed name Tinker, they implicitly recognised not only the fact that it was Irish Travellers in Ireland (historically referred to as Tinkers) who created the breed, but also that Ireland is the actual country of origin of the breed.