If ya wanna know anything else about it just ask.. cheers
Shoes
The outbreak started in sydney mate ...and jumped from property to property, there is a state line restriction on ALL states but it is very difficult to contain.
darwin has not been affected as such and may be able to resume racing saturday.
A time frame is tough as it only takes 1 or 2 people/horses to break rank and it can get out of control again as Humans can catch this in an instant but it has no affect on us but we CAN pass it on to the horses...so strappers/farriers/jockeys/track riders ect can carry it to multiple venues.
There was an outbreak of EI in south africa and it stopped the racing industry for 13 weeks (just over 3 months) ...as for individual horses first thought was 3-5 days but for the horses that are recoverring trainers are being told not to even start Jogging/cantering them back into work for at least 2 weeks to be safe.
hope this helps mate...
lastest bad news is that there are now 8 horses in Vic being tested for the EI if they are found positive racing may not resume sat in Melb...lets hope it comes back negative.
Shoes
lastest bad news is that there are now 8 horses in Vic being tested for the EI if they are found positive racing may not resume sat in Melb...lets hope it comes back negative.
Shoes
news.com.au said:THE worst fears of the racing industry appear to have been realised with the news of the first racehorse to test positive to equine influenza (EI).
Confirmatory tests are still underway but it is almost certain a horse from trainer Anthony Cummings' stable at Randwick in Sydney has the highly contagious disease.
Randwick Racecourse has been locked down and all horses confined to their boxes.
"We have taken a second test but the first one showed all the signs of being positive," Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'Landys said this morning.
"The previous tests have been accurate so we are holding little hope.
"The test on the second sample will be expedited and we should know for certain later this morning.
"It is such bad news."
Until now, the virus has only been detected in recreational and pleasure horses in NSW and Queensland, but a standstill on all horse movements in Australia is in place until Friday.
Racing is expected to resume in all other states this weekend.
Officials had been hopeful racing could resume in a limited form in the next couple of weeks.
The first case of EI in Australia was confirmed in a stallion at the Eastern Creek quarantine station west of Sydney a week ago.
Horses at an equestrian centre at Centennial Park in Sydney's eastern suburbs were also found to be infected but a link between the two has not yet been established.
Several horses from Centennial Park travelled to Maitland, in the Hunter Valley, for a show on the weekend of August 18 and 19 before the virus was apparent and spread the infection to other horses which have since travelled to various parts of NSW and Queensland.
The stallions at Eastern Creek had come from the northern hemisphere and were due to begin serving mares this weekend.
An investigation is underway into how EI breached Australian biosecurity barriers.
it's official....the Sydney Spring Carnival has been called off. 8 out of 10 horses tested today from the Randwick stables have come back positive.
A 30 day quarintine will follow and basically end the Spring carnival in Sydney
Thats fine
No its not fine, you could usually get a better price on the Melbourne Horses (and that includes David Hayes runners) cause all the NSW punters would back the NSW Horses.
Now with no NSW horses they will be putting their money on the Vic horses
No because the NSW horses are usually backed on the NSW tab
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