Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Harness Racing: Irish Harness Racing Association

Mr. Mark Flanagan:

Our stock of breeding mares would be about 300 mares. They are privately owned. In France, for the French mares, Le Trot facilitates tours. When you go to France, it pays for the tour to go around and look at the mares and the racehorses, and it subsidises the price of the mares. Independent people and independent stud farms own them.