The biennial EASBC Conference was held in Romania, very kindly hosted by The Romanian Jockey Club, on Friday, May 9th 2025.  31 Approved Stud Books and three emerging stud books were in attendance. 

Guest speakers included:

• Nadine Brandtner, General Manager, World Breeding Federation for Sports Horses (WBFSH)
• Tullis Matson, Managing Director, Stallion AI Services Ltd & Cryogenics Ltd
• Malcolm Morley, Director of UK, World Horse Welfare

Items for discussion included:

• The alliance between ISBC and WBFSH
• African Horse Sickness and changes to import/export protocols between South Africa and the EU
• Gene doping
• Proposals for registration of horses in occupied territories
• Access to DNA profiles
• The transition from microsatellite (MS) markers to single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers
• Export certificates
• New technologies in equine breeding
• Equine welfare