Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine funded/partially funded initiatives
National Breeding Services
Horse Sport Ireland wish to acknowledge and thank the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the provision of funding for the below initiatives supporting Irish breeders and Irish equine breeds:
- Embryo transfer scheme
- Mare X-Ray Screening Scheme
- High Performance Stallion X-Ray Scheme
- Stallion Health Screening Scheme
- Premium Retention Scheme
- Colt Retention Scheme
- Transition from Microsatellite (MS) to Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Scheme
- Mare Breeding Package Scheme
- Environmental Sampling with IEC
- Starting Scheme
- Schooling schemes (I & II)
- Autumn DAFM Development Series
- DAFM Studbook Series (Eventing and Show jumping)
- Breeding Grant Initiative
- Foal Championship
- Loose Jumping series
- Young Breeders Training
- Genomic Software
- DAFM Anti-Doping Programme
- Hoof Wall Separation Disease Testing
- FEI WBFSH Jumping World Breeding Championships for Young Horses
- FEI WBFSH Eventing World Breeding Championships for Young Horses
- FEI WBFSH Studbooks Nations Cup for Young Horses
Equine Technical Support
Horse Sport Ireland wish to acknowledge and thank the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for provision of funding/ partially funded studbook specific projects as listed below:
- Horse Sport Ireland Studbook DNA Typing (foals)
- Irish Cob Stallion Mare and Gelding Inspections
- Irish Draught & Irish Sport Horse, Irish Pony Stud Books Stallion selections
- Irish Draught, Irish Sport Horse and Irish Pony Studbook Mare Selection
- Linear profiling
- RDS Show
- Genetic Indexing
- Exchange of Information for Inspection Processes Irish Draught Horse Studbook
- Studbook Arena Party Training
- World Breeding News magazine publications
- Customer Service Development
- Horse Source Development
