HORSE Sport Ireland’s CEO Denis Duggan has given a commitment to breeders that passports will be turned around within four to six weeks following the hard launch this week of Horse Source, HSI’s new online system for registering horses.

Long delays in processing passports have been a constant frustration of breeders who, since May, could not apply for a passport while the data from the old system was being transferred to Horse Source. While an initial date of mid-June did not materialise, breeders have this week begun using the new e-passporting website.