Some Key Issues...

• Sporthorse export value is estimated at $18.7m annually.

• Need to raise expertise in selling/dealing with purhasers. Quality was a word people used to illustrate what is wanted. This applies to Improving horse performance when selling as well as improving riders – reduction of aggressive horse handling, increasing a
professional approach to horse education.

• Competitiors governments financially back their equestrian sectors. Ireland stud fees pay no taxation; Germany, France and Ireland
receive huge funds from their governments. In the USA large numbers of amateurs fund the professionals. In NZ ‘we have do it
yourselfers who all have a horse in the paddock’. There is not enough money in the sport – we are mostly amateurs.

• There are people in Counties who earn 90% of their income from exporting Sporthorses.

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www.countiesnzsporthorse.org