And a second confirmed case from WEC.
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Oh really?
I just saw copper meadows isn’t letting horses into their event if they’ve been overseas or if they’ve been in Florida.
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Desert International Horse Park (AKA Thermal, and no longer a HITS event) has updated the Horse Declaration form that has to be submitted 24 hours before bringing a horse into the grounds to indicate that horses cannot have been in Europe or FL within 14 days.
Form - https://deserthorsepark.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DIHP_HealthArrivalForm.pdf
Page with links to assorted forms and health requirements - https://deserthorsepark.com/forms/
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Scary
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WEC has instituted biosecurity measures and are not permitting ship ins, but they did permit horses to leave… The two ill horses are jumpers and barn mates. The dressage show scheduled for next weekend offered competitors the option of scratching for refund minus office fees, and those who were going to ship in but did not want stalls can get a full refund because the facility is not permitting ship ins. I was surprised and glad to be offered that option as I had entered the show but do not want to hazard my horse’s health.
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I can’t lie, I don’t really understand the logic behind not allowing ship-ins, but allowing new people to still come to the facility to show if they have a stall. Can anyone explain this to me?
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The only reason I can think for this one is that shipins are most likely LOCAL, and the virus has been confirmed in two LOCAL horses. Horses with stalls that are shipping in cannot be from any show in FL and are more likely to be from out of state. This is purely a guess on my part.
Maybe bc there’s more horse movement per day associated with ship ins? So things could spiral out of control faster. But things could still spiral out of control.
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Update - Barn D quarantined.
Probably, because ships ins also ship OUT. If you’ve got a stall there, theoretically, you’re staying in one place?
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Horse showing will continue as scheduled??!! Wow
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Noting that Barn D at WEC is the one where the affected horses were.
Source for screen shot.
https://equinediseasecc.org/alerts
Select State=FL and apply filter.
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Can you link to where you saw there was a case in VA? Not sure which website you are referencing, a quick Google search turned up only a positive case in Hanover a month ago that was quickly contained at a private barn. Thanks!
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edited out.
That’s the only positive case I’ve heard about in VA. I know there was a strangles scare in VA last month as well.
Wow, I hope this doesn’t spread much further. We don’t show, so we’re probably safe going on the trails, but it’s concerning.
Here’s a good link for information:
Two horses from one barn. What’s the cleaning procedure for these barns normally then? Do they not deep clean between barns arriving?
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I don’t think I’ve shown anywhere where a deep cleaning between shows/barns is the normal procedure, either done by management or the exhibitors moving in.
Interesting that the press release refers to the two horses that became symptomatic once they were home, but not to the quarantine (announced yesterday) in the one barn at WEC itself.
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Breaking- Worth Reading- Kentucky’s Position on the worldwide outbreak. Now in 6 countries
traced back to the European outbreak.
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