Jockey Club offering free IDs of tattoos

[Merlinsky]

http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/edito...e.cgi?id=14681
Racehorse tattoos will now be searchable, even partials. So if you come across a horse in a kill pen or something, I would guess that means you could do a search fairly quickly and see who it is or narrow it down. Can you get close enough to check that kind of thing at those types of auctions?