WHAT will Brexit mean for British-based studbooks? According to Celia Clarke, of the Warmblood Breeders Studbook UK (WBSUK), the situation is still unclear, until all the many eventualities open to the UK government are finally decided on.

Speaking to The Irish Field at the WBFSH general assembly in Budapest last weekend, Clarke said: “What it will mean is we will carry on pretty much as we are, except that normally pre-Brexit, when we were a member of the EU, DEFRA was able to ask for derogations for lots of things, such as native breeds.