- JOHANNESBURG - Racehorses
in a barn at the Randjesfontein training centre north of Johannesburg have
been diagnosed with equine flu.
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- Phumelela has abandoned the race meeting at Turffontein
on Tuesday in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading to other training
centres on the Highveld.
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- The horses will be moved and the barn disinfected in
an attempt to prevent the virus from spreading.
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- The race meeting scheduled for Vaal on Thursday is set
to go ahead at this stage, although Randjesfontein runners carded for the
meeting will not participate.
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- A decision on whether Randjesfontein runners will be
allowed to participate in the race meeting scheduled for Turffontein on
Sunday, or whether the meeting will be cancelled, will be made in due course.
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- No Randjesfontein-based runners were accepted for the
Bloemfontein meeting on Monday, December 22 at final declarations for the
fixture on Tuesday.
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- It is likely that the Randjesfontein training centre
will be placed under quarantine.
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- In the Eastern Cape the virus has spread from the training
centre at Arlington to the Fairview training centre and the race meetings
scheduled at Arlington on 19, 21 and 26 December have been cancelled.
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- Virtually all racehorses in Phumelela racing regions,
with the exception of the Eastern Cape where the virus must run its course,
have been vaccinated and the inoculation of racehorses in KwaZulu-Natal
is currently under way.
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- The equine flu broke out in the training centre at Milnerton
in Cape Town last week and later spread to the Arlington training centre
in Port Elizabeth.
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- The movement of racehorses in and out of KwaZulu-Natal
and the Eastern and Western Cape has been suspended.
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