What they said:

“My one wish would be the sector getting behind that happening – operating with one voice and increasing our funding model” – Ronan Murphy, CEO of Horse Sport Ireland

“Working conditions for young people is a problem, people come into this business because they love it. Do not take advantage of that, nurture it as much as you can. Look at increasing your workforce or making it flexible” – Meta Osborne, Senior Steward, Turf Club

“We have outstanding veterinary facilities in Ireland. You would be better going into the two best clinic here than going to the Blackrock Clinic!” – Dr Noel Cawley

“We need to generate alternative sources of industry funding, we need to act as one business and one sector, attract new sponsors and collaborative marketing across all of the sectors. Old thinking is no longer quite so easy” – Aidan Connolly, Alltech’s Chief Innovation Officer and Vice President

#EQUINESUMMIT Trending

THE #EquineSummit hadhtag was trending number one in Ireland yesterday during the inaugural event which saw all the major player in both the sport horse and thoroughbred industry come together and discuss ways to bring the industry forward. On the social media decks for The Irish Field was editorial intern Orlaith Cuddihy, who kept those at home up to speed with up to the minute tweets and helped keep the hashtag at number one.