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:
It is difficult for me to answer that but if I were to take a guess, every one of them would love to get passports. In order to get a passport, you have to go through DNA and DNA markers. They have to be purebred, so there is no difference in that regard. There is a strain of a coloured horse that comes from Australia and it is 1% of all standardbreds. Thoroughbreds have a strain of a grey horse. There is a strain that comes from Canada and Australia, which is black and white and which they kind of integrate. It is a purebred and it is integrated into the normal standardbred.