The NZTBA is offering two Scholarships to young New Zealanders seeking to develop their professional skills with high-level industry expertise they can apply to their careers after they return home. 

Applications for Scholarships open in August / September with interviews held each year in October.

Please read on, and email Sally Cassels-Brown, NZTBA Scholarships Administrator, for more information.

PAST NZTBA SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS


2013 NZTBA OVERSEAS TRAINING SCHOLARSHIP

Since 2006 each year the K.I. A. Taylor Charitable Trust, associated with the Taylor family, owners of Trelawney Stud, Cambridge, has generously funded a Scholarship for a person to attend the Irish National Stud Diploma Course.  The scholarship is known as the Keith Taylor Equine Scholarship provides the successful candidate with:

Five months at the Irish National Stud, beginning in February 2013.  The Scholarship covers:

• Return economy airfare
• Fees for the National Stud Diploma course
• Accommodation
• Cash advance for personal expenses 

The Scholarship is open to any person aged 25 or under (as at 31 December in the year of application) who is  interested in furthering their career in the thoroughbred breeding industry. Ideally, the successful applicant will have previous work experience on a thoroughbred stud in New Zealand.  Conditions apply.  Click here to learn more about the Irish National Stud Thoroughbred Breeding Course

2013 NZTBA INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCHOLARSHIP

The NZTBA International Management Scholarship is funded by the Sunline Education Trust, launched at the 2002 NZTBA Auckland dinner to honour New Zealand’s champion racemare. Several New Zealand stud farms generously donated stallion services for auction, and the proceeds established a fund now administered by the Trust.