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Equine Flu Outbreak

Is it going too far to suggest this could be something that puts the festival at risk of even happening?
 
Middle_Of_March said:
Is it going too far to suggest this could be something that puts the festival at risk of even happening?
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No. I think it has to be in serious doubt. I suppose it all depends how quickly they can get things under control. The fact that infected horses travelled to two separate racecourses, at two ends of the country, is a massive cause for concern.
 
Faugheen_Machine said:
No. I think it has to be in serious doubt. I suppose it all depends how quickly they can get things under control. The fact that infected horses travelled to two separate racecourses, at two ends of the country, is a massive cause for concern.
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Blimey - I hadn’t thought of that.

Worrying stuff.
 
D McCain the only trainer to have runners at Ayr and Ludlow?
 
Awful this, just hope they get it in control asap. The vets will be busy over the next few days and hopefully will get any affected horses into quarantine. Apparently when this broke in Oz it took 4 months to sort out so lets hope its nowhere near the scale of that.

Hopefully all horses concerned will be ok and not at risk
 
Another thing is that Gordon had runners at Ayr as well.
 
Assuming yards were notified before the press release they would have barely been home I would think also I note Irish racing haven’t cancelled today
 
...major concern, but hopefully there are lessons learned from the Australian outbreak and plans in place to immediately manage this.

On the positive side, the cases have quickly come to light but the concern is runners from the same yard carrying the virus for a week or so. I suppose lots depends on whether horses running at the meetings can be isolated and tested, particularly those running in the same races.

Grooms, stall handlers etc can apparently pass the bug on according to Sky News, who also mention Donald McCain’s yard as the probable source.
 
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Just been reading up, very strange they are not cancelling in Ireland after Gordy was at Ayr yesterday surely???
When they had this in Aus the racing industry was shut down for 4 months!
 
I am sure everyone will be fully on top of this. Far better this happening now than a month from now.
 
Have Paddy Power priced up a special on whether Cheltenham will take place. I'd like some insurance:devilish:
 
Would Gordons have made it back to the yard by the time the announcement was made? Youd be hopeful they would of not been allowed to get that far.
 
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Have Paddy Power priced up a special on whether Cheltenham will take place. I'd like some insurance:devilish:
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I think you will find that all bets would be voided unless the races are rescheduled with the same current entries. Or are you wanting the insurance to hedge the loss of your winnings? If so I can sympathise because I'm sitting on a healthy green book for the Gold Cup which would come to nothing. The main thing is the horses are treated quickly as otherwise this could be devastating to the industry.
 
Came on here to debate races, probably not much point in that until this clears up. Awful news. Hope it doesn't have a huge impact on the animals themselves and is contained pretty quickly.

From a selfish punting perspective it is probably the worst situation for many reasons, first off already sitting on a loss through horses that sustained injuries or worse, plus cashed out bets, and secondly all the hours/time/debate/discussion of research and you lose any 'deserved' decent prices you may have that are no longer and likely never will be available again, should the festival not go ahead. I presume bets will be void only.

Don't get me wrong, my main concern is obviously all of the horses welfare, and I wish all of them speedy recoveries. Fingers crossed for some good news over the coming week or so.
 
Nortons who said:
I think you will find that all bets would be voided unless the races are rescheduled with the same current entries. Or are you wanting the insurance to hedge the loss of your winnings? If so I can sympathise because I'm sitting on a healthy green book for the Gold Cup which would come to nothing. The main thing is the horses are treated quickly as otherwise this could be devastating to the industry.
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I think all antipost bets are not voided but classed as losers unless the meeting is rescheduled , I hope your right but I think I read that somewhere once, different rules for Antipost bets,, but you never know the bookies mite be kind as this has never happened in the UK before....
 
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It would take a brave bookie to settle Cheltenham antepost bets as losers if the festival was cancelled
 
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