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Horse euthanized, barn quarantined at Turfway

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A horse stabled at Turfway Park was
euthanized and a barn was quarantined after the filly tested
positive for the equine herpes virus.

Trainer Charles Simon declined to identify the horse Friday, but
said she began having coordination trouble Wednesday.

"We didn't want her to suffer anymore," Simon said.

The barn has been under quarantine since Wednesday, track
president Bob Elliston said. The stable has about 50 horses.

The equine herpes virus is an upper respiratory and neurological
ailment that can spread through the air, but it can travel only
about 35 feet and can be killed by disinfectants.

Simon said the horse, which had been at the Florence track since
the first week of September, had finished second and third in
races.

Elliston said the track is trying to limit the disease, and
trainers in other barns have been asked to take the temperatures of
their horses a couple of times a day.

Earlier this year, two horses at Churchill Downs with severe
symptoms of equine herpes were put down during an outbreak at the
Louisville track's spring meet. About 100 horses in three barns
were quarantined.

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