British Racing Cancelled due to Equine Flu

NaiveMelodies wrote: »

Ah you would ever stop sh*ting on like a child.
Wouldn't have us punters at top of any sympathy list ffs.

This could be devestating for people who actually rely on the industry to put food on their tables.

With all due respect to you, piss off
I love cheltenham, and if its cancelled i will be absolutely gutted
I am sorry if that offends your bloody sensibilities, oh High Moral one

WicklowBrave wrote: »

No reason why Cheltenham can't go ahead with horses from yards not on lockdown. So basically all horses trained in Ireland and Coneygree and a few others from the UK. Not ideal but it certainly beats calling the whole thing off. This isn't like a foot and mouth situation, equine flu is endemic in Ireland and the UK. Just keep horses from the yards on lockdown away from Cheltenham.

Why coneygree so special ?

Looks like what I said about no British trained winners at Cheltenham will be spot on.

What can I say? I predict these things.

RivetingRoger wrote: »

Current odds from PP

Will the Cheltenham Festival start on the 12th March?
Yes

1/4
No

2/1


That's a big change from 1/10 this morning

Might lump on the 2/1 to soften the blow of it getting called off.

RivetingRoger wrote: »

So say we all Pat
I am getting fu*kall work done the last few days scouring twitter feeds for any info on this
(i work for myself from home)

People who don't love NH racing don't "get it"
Yesterday you had rte "sports journos" and newstalk presenters scoffing at this, wondering was equine flu as bad as man flu ha ha ha ha....
Drove me mad :mad:

Since Christmas once santy has come and gone all the NH fan can think about is the festival (ok maybe a slight exaggeration but ye get me)

Podcast, after AP bet, after NRNB bet, after scour of the RP .....

Then this sh*te hits!!!

Wow, amazingly it's not all about you

redarmy wrote: »

:rolleyes:

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

For anyone just joining this thread...RivetingRover is a hysterical fanny and Scott Tenerman is still upset with Roger and he was slammed by him a couple of weeks back.

Earendil wrote: »

For anyone just joining this thread...RivetingRover is a hysterical fanny and Scott Tenerman is still upset with Roger and he was slammed by him a couple of weeks back.

This enormous woman will destroy us all.....jumps out window...

WicklowBrave wrote: »

No reason why Cheltenham can't go ahead with horses from yards not on lockdown. So basically all horses trained in Ireland and Coneygree and a few others from the UK. Not ideal but it certainly beats calling the whole thing off. This isn't like a foot and mouth situation, equine flu is endemic in Ireland and the UK. Just keep horses from the yards on lockdown away from Cheltenham.

I thought humans could be carriers as well, so presumably you'd also need to 'ban' racing people who've been in contact with the yards that are on lockdown from going to Cheltenham. Trainers, staff, jockeys, vets, box-drivers, stewards, journalists?
It doesn't seem feasible really. Either UK racing gets the full all-clear or it doesn't, I can't see your half-clear idea being the solution.

Twiston Davies is on the money on this. By all means, it's correct for racing to take precautions, but to close everything down for a week is just reactionary.

irish_major wrote: »

Twiston davies is a ****ing idiot. To not close everything would have been incompetent and stupid.

I don't think he is that stupid. As he said, this is horse flu, not ebola.

They are constantly testing these horses, and any horses connected with suspected cases too. By all means, get the horses checked out, but I don't see any reason why racing has to go into lockdown in the interim.

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#Breaking BHA announces that “so far, other than the six at the yard of Donald McCain already identified, there have been no further positive samples returned” from 720 swabs tested to date for equine flu by the Animal Health Trust of the 2,100 received (1/2)

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These include swabs taken on horses from trainer Rebecca Menzies’ yard, with those tests due to be repeated (2/2)

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Caution from BHA's David Sykes: "I would advise against anyone drawing any conclusions or making any predictions based on this set of results. Our focus remains on containing the virus through the strict adherence to biosecurity measures we are seeing across the industry."

RivetingRoger wrote: »

few positive sounds today
hope springs eternal

You sent me looking for the poem - An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.


I like the last lines

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony, not understood;
All partial evil, universal good:
And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

Thought racing would be back this coming Wednesday but I’d say that’s unlikely now