Shipping Horses Internationally: The Complete Friesian Import Guide
Shipping horses internationally sounds impossibly complicated until someone walks you through it, at which point it becomes merely expensive and highly procedural. Horses fly more often than most people realise. There is an established industry of specialist agents, purpose-built air stalls, professional flying grooms and government quarantine facilities that moves horses between continents every week. It is safe, it is routine, and it is entirely manageable, provided you understand the sequence and budget honestly for it. This guide walks through the whole process for importing a Friesian into the United States: the paperwork, the pre-export testing, the flight itself, quarantine on arrival, and where the costs actually land. It is written from the perspective of the buyer, because that is who usually has to make the decisions.
