Process to sell sports horses climbs hurdle

AN APPROVED process for sellers and suppliers of Irish sport horses is to be introduced, it was announced as the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show got under way.

The process will involve the publication of an approved list of sellers and suppliers which will be made available to prospective sport horse purchasers from at home and abroad.

Joe Walsh, chairman of the new governing body for the industry, Horse Sport Ireland, said it was important that purchasers from abroad and Irish people who were getting involved in the sector for the first time could have confidence in those from whom they purchased horses.