Exporting Your Horse from Germany Worldwide: Contract, Export Documents and Transport
About 80 % of our clients live outside Germany, mainly in the USA and Canada, so export is part of almost every sale. Once the pre-purchase exam is done, things move quickly. Here is how the purchase is completed and how your horse gets to you.
Reservation and purchase contract
When the pre-purchase exam is completed, we reserve the horse for you, usually for about one week and in some cases up to 10 days. During this time your vet reviews the findings and X-rays. Once you have decided, we send you the purchase contract. You sign it and pay for the horse within the reservation period.
Export from Germany
Before a horse can leave Germany, it needs the export documents required by the destination country. If you do not have a shipping company yet, we are happy to recommend experienced international horse shippers. For overseas destinations, blood tests are required as well. Your shipping company tells us which tests are needed and when they have to be done. We take the blood samples and bring them to the laboratory in Germany. The shipping company also takes care of the customs declaration.
Health certificate (TRACES)
Every horse that leaves Germany needs a health certificate (TRACES), whether it is sold within the EU or to a country outside the EU, such as the USA or Canada. We work with the official veterinary authority to have it issued. For this, we need the relevant details from your shipping company in good time. Please ask your shipping company to contact us early, so that the certificate is ready when your horse travels.
Quarantine and transport
Depending on the destination, your horse may have to spend time in quarantine before or after the flight. We coordinate the pickup at our farm with your shipping company. Import rules differ from country to country and can change, so the shipping company follows the current requirements.
Training until shipping
Until your horse is shipped, it stays with us in training. This is free of charge for up to one week after the contract is signed. After that, we charge for boarding and training. For riding horses this is only a temporary arrangement: because of our own horses, we do not have the capacity for long-term training. Would you like your horse to continue its training before it travels to you? We are happy to recommend professional riders we work with ourselves. Just ask us.
Young horses that are still growing up can, by arrangement, continue to grow up with our own horses.