Breeders support Asian conference
Some racing club officials have expressed strong opposition to the staging of the seventeenth Asian Racing Conference in New Zealand in 1984 because of the high costs involved. But the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association believes such a conference provides ”an unparalleled opportunity” to expose New Zealand thoroughbred racing and breeding to an influential international audience.
“The only previous Asian Racing Conference held in New Zealand, in 1968, resulted in benefits to the bloodstock industry still being felt today,” Mr Gordon Mitchell, president of the New Zealand Thoroughbred
Breeders’ Association, said yesterday. Contacts made at that time, and maintained subsequently had opened up wider scope for overseas participation in racing by New Zealand horses, owners, trainers, and jockeys, Mr Mitchell said.
The Asian conference has been arranged to coincide with the 1984 yearling sales at Trentham. Arrangements are also being made to enable 350 delegates from 14 member countries to visit all parts of New Zealand before the conference opens.
There will also be observers from the United States, England, and France at the conference.
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