It will be expensive if you are to buy a colt from n.z and bring him out here to race.
http://www.harness.org.au/news-artic...?news_id=16473
Nice work Mightymo.
It will be expensive if you are to buy a colt from n.z and bring him out here to race.
Good.
If you bring a colt out to race the fee will be $5k what is the current fee, also there will be an Imported semen foal registration fee of $500 for colts and $250 for fillies does the breeder get slugged this fee ????
Not sure. Mightymo might care to step in here and elaborate?
QUOTE [ The Panel also revamped the Sires Fertility List to include Positive Tests, to more accurately reflect the performance of the Stallion. Previously, a mare dying, a mare slipping or a foal dying counted against a Stallions fertility performance.
These changes now determine the Stallions' performance based on positive tests as a percentage of total services.
Based on the 2009/2010 statistics, the Stallion Fertility percentage rose from 62.15% to 73.94% as there were 992 more positive tests than the live foals figure reflects ] END QUOTE.
that fee of 5k wouldnt last 5 seconds... absolute breach of world trade agreements, you cannot restrict NZ's who own colts trying to sell them into aussie without grounds for health, quaratine or native resource depletion
I think the higher import fee's are a good idea it can only help promote our own breeding industry that is sadly lacking in incentives to breed that 1 extra wether to race yourself or sell
in the education,training strategy to get live foals to track i believe a lot of horses just aren't given enough time because the owner's want that early 2yo money if they don't come up quick a lot of them are invariably dogged for the simple reason they weren't mature enough at that stage of their life and because of the cost's are got rid of because of lack of patience and being able to give them time as another 12 month's is more dead money in agistment cost's etc
Have whoever you want on but don't ever have yourself on
C'mon Smithy, surely you can do better than that.
Breach of WTA's my hairy backside. The Australian Harness Racing Industry can do whatever it so pleases as far as its import fee structure is concerned.
It is free to do so in the very same fashion as the NZ Industry has for whatever reason long seen fit to ban the importation and use of Australian made Race Bikes.