Hannahpig

Interested to hear from any one who has come moved to USA with their horses. Also anyone who has started their own yard.
Thanks

Noorah101

Started their own yard? What does that mean?

Rene

scrubbedexpat099

Horsey term

Noorah101

OK. I'll google it, thanks.

Rene

Noorah101

"A livery yard or livery stable (Great Britain, Ireland), or boarding stable (Australia, North America) is a stable where horse owners pay a weekly or monthly fee to keep their horses."

Hannah,

What visa will you be using to come to the USA? Are you thinking of opening a stable to board horses as a source of income? Depending on what visa you have, you may or may not be able to do this.

Rene

scrubbedexpat099

Great Britain[edit]
In Great Britain, Thoroughbred horse racing is governed by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) which makes and enforces the rules, issues licences or permits to trainers and jockeys, and runs the races through their race course officials. The Jockey Club in the UK has been released from its regulatory function but still performs various supporting roles.

A significant part of the BHA's work relates to the disciplining of trainers and jockeys, including appeals from decisions made by the course stewards. Disciplinary enquiries usually relate to the running of a horse, for example: failure to run a horse on its merits, interference with other runners, excessive use of the whip. The emergence of internet betting exchanges has created opportunities for the public to lay horses and this development has been associated with some high-profile disciplinary proceedings.

In order to run under rules a horse must be registered at Weatherbys as a Thoroughbred. It must also reside permanently at the yard of a trainer licensed by the BHA or a permit holder. Similarly the horse's owner or owners must be registered as owners.

boltonreddave

Hi,

We moved a horse to Pittsburgh in March. The transport by road from JFK to Pittsburgh was arranged locally just by searching online. The air transport and customs etc was through a company called Pedens Bloodstock (or mersant int in the US).

As an indication the air transport cost us almost $10,000 and that was just to the east coast.

Good luck and let me know if you need any more info.

Pulaski

Horsey term, and abbreviated too!

Hannahpig

Apologies. Someone who has moved to USA with their horses and opened their own livery yard/competition centre. Gained clients, held competitions, been out competing and started it as a business

christmasoompa

I got it - horsey person and so we're at 'the yard' every day. If I'm talking to non horsey people I try and say 'the stables' just so they understand.

But as above, what visa are you moving on? A lot won't allow you to open up your own business or work in a yard, so you might need to clarify.

Good luck with it.

ottotheboar

Where are you going to be located ? we are midway between Charlottesville and Richmond and there are plenty of equestrian facilities from small stables to large complexes with indoor arenas. Northern Virginia / Sothern Maryland seems well served also.

Pulaski

From what I have seen while driving around, there are many horse facilities yards all the way from New York to Florida, and from what I hear it is equally true on the west side of the Appalachians from Ohio and Indiana to the gulf coast. I presume it is true across most of America, so starting one from scratch may be an uphill struggle if the market is saturated.

Noorah101

Are you saying you've already done this, or this is your future plan? Since you are asking how to bring the horses over, I assume it's the future plan...but the paragraph is in past tense...so can you clarify?

What visa will you be on?

Rene

robin1234

I'm pretty sure there are more horses than people in our county. The majority would be Amish, but a goodly number of "English" folk around us have two- or five - or twenty horses in the fields around their double wides..

Pulaski

She has used the past tense because she is looking for someone who has already done what she is planning to do in the future.

Unless she has some route to a more permanent visa, it would be perfectly possible to to buy, or start, and operate a livery yard using an E-2 visa.