Standardbred Canada’s Board of Directors met in July with a full agenda. We cleaned up many By-laws and adjusted some others to help facilitate a different board size. The membership will have a chance to vote on these changes with ballots to be mailed out in 2013. More information will be made available before then.
The Taxation Committee has been participating in conversations with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture with regard to Section 31 (Restricted farm losses). They have agreed that the issue should be presented as a “Young Farmers” issue and not solely as a horse racing industry challenge.
The Breeders Committee met at the end of June. Many topics were covered, and valuable discussions were had. Stallion reports aren’t due into SC until November, so it’s still too early to see what impact the recent government announcements have had on our breeding industry.