Originally Posted by
Danno
The increased import fee ( or tariiff if you like) is another bullshit remedy to prop up the commercial breeder in Australia, nothing more , nothing less. The whole game has been paying through the nose to support a group of people that constantly claim they cant make ends meet.
When service fees come into line with what people are prepared to pay for yearlings, and prizemoney, integrity and marketing find some growth the game may start to consolidate, but at the moment the game is failing, so to impose a bullshit tax on everyone who deals in NZ horses ( and I'm not one of them ) in order to create a false security for one group of people.......dumb move IMO, and just another dumb move that supports the commercial breeeder and makes life a little harder for the poor old owners, the real lifeblood of this game that keeps on getting kicked in the guts.
Cheers,
Dan