tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post3718564003397179219..comments2024-03-24T15:26:37.931+00:00Comments on PG's Tips: Racing suspendedGeeDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834633278297488704noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post-76531166439732866002019-02-12T09:51:11.988+00:002019-02-12T09:51:11.988+00:00It’s great that racing has been given the green li...It’s great that racing has been given the green light. <br /><br />Though in introducing the new 6-month vaccination rule with immediate effect is another faux pas by the BHA; it should have been rolled out gradually.<br /><br />Still, on to Super Saturday!<br /><br />TW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post-22819074426805402082019-02-12T08:23:49.844+00:002019-02-12T08:23:49.844+00:00Tuesday morning 12.02.19
Racing returns tomorrow ...Tuesday morning 12.02.19<br /><br />Racing returns tomorrow (13.02.19) with jumps meetings at Plumpton and Musselburgh and all-weather cards at Southwell and Kempton.<br /><br />The BHA has confirmed that at present two yards are identified as infected - those of Donald McCain and Simon Crisford. <br /><br />Whilst admitting there is a risk in returning to racing, the BHA has quantified this risk as 'acceptable'. GeeDeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834633278297488704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post-71675074789072640112019-02-11T16:45:04.381+00:002019-02-11T16:45:04.381+00:00Update Monday afternoon 11.02.19
Four horses at S...Update Monday afternoon 11.02.19<br /><br />Four horses at Simon Crisford's yard in Newmarket have returned positive tests for equine influenza. <br /><br />The ban on British runners in Ireland has been lifted with immediate effect.<br /><br />The BHA are to make an announcement on the resumption of racing in Britain this evening, but not before 10.30pm at the earliest.<br /><br /><br /> GeeDeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834633278297488704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post-62540810573829639712019-02-09T19:53:00.365+00:002019-02-09T19:53:00.365+00:00Saturday evening 09.02.19
Racing Post reports tha...Saturday evening 09.02.19<br /><br />Racing Post reports that the Animal Health Trust (AHT) has analysed 720 of of approximately 2,100 nasal swabs and no new cases of equine flu have been detected:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.racingpost.com/news/equine-flu-outbreak/no-new-equine-flu-cases-as-swabs-are-analysed-by-animal-health-trust/365787" rel="nofollow">No new positive cases of equine flu found</a><br />GeeDeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834633278297488704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post-53220831165852190072019-02-09T19:20:43.331+00:002019-02-09T19:20:43.331+00:00Hi TW,
On balance, I thought the BHA made the rig...Hi TW,<br /><br />On balance, I thought the BHA made the right call in the first instance but, slowly, I'm coming around to the viewpoint expressed above. To paraphrase NTD - with its adopted stance, the BHA is now in some considerable danger of boxing itself into a corner with little room for manoeuvre. <br /><br />Of course, the vaccinated thoroughbred population of c. 20,000 is a very small proportion of the total horse population of the country, the majority of which is unlikely to have been be vaccinated.<br /><br />With some tests results due on Monday, we should at least have a clearer picture of how well the outbreak has been contained. <br /><br />On ITV Racing earlier today Luke Harvey suggested we'd miss a couple of weeks and then racing would resume; perhaps that's the way it'll all pan out.GeeDeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834633278297488704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post-84837372629883961172019-02-09T12:41:13.365+00:002019-02-09T12:41:13.365+00:00I agree with Nigel Twiston-Davies in that I think ...I agree with Nigel Twiston-Davies in that I think the BHA might be over reacting.<br /><br />The quotes from Newmarket Equine Vet Pete Ramzan in the RP:-<br /><br /><i><br />I think it’s fair to say that for the time being vets and trainers are happy to go along with these measures, but I can't quite see where they're leading. To some degree it looks an overreaction and isn't necessarily justified by the circumstances, given flu is endemic in the UK.<br /><br />The BHA takes advice from experts, but as a clinician at the coalface, dealing with respiratory disease on a daily basis in racing yards, it seems as if the measures put in place do not match the threat to British racehorses or racing.<br /><br />If a new strain of flu is going to break through the excellent vaccination protocols already in use in most yards, history tells us it will happen regardless of these measures, as flu is far less containable than other more serious diseases like strangles or neurological herpes virus.<br /><br />The UK thoroughbred population is probably one of the best vaccinated group of animals on the planet, but just as in people we should expect ‘bad’ flu years from time to time, and we're probably overdue one. Perhaps we're on the cusp of just such a year, although this is by no means certain at this early stage.<br /><br />If so, we can expect some poor-performing yards and more respiratory disease than usual, but as with previous episodes it will pass, vaccines will get updated and we’ll then have another extended period of relative health in the population.<br /><br />I can understand a degree of nervousness on the part of the regulator, who have to be seen to be doing the right thing, and it's understandable it wishes to find out more, but this can be achieved through surveillance swabbing without mandating a shutdown of racing or of individual yards.<br /><br />Trainers by and large use their common sense and nobody chooses to send sick horses to the races.<br /></i><br /><br />TW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com