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Equine Flu strikes - all Thursday's Horse Racing cards abandoned.
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That's bad news for everyone, except losing horse race punters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/47152882
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Looks like some poker players will be affected too, according to this....
Equine flu is a highly contagious respiratory virus which affects horses, mules and donkeys.
They can start again when we get into the Transition period.
The EU are to blame as usual.
Horse racing is facing its biggest health - and financial - crisis in 18 years, with the industry forced to close down in the UK due to an outbreak of equine flu.
More than 100 stables remain on lockdown, with six days of meetings cancelled, as the authorities work to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious illness.
The industry, which is worth an estimated £3.5bn to the UK economy a year, and the wider sector employ close to 100,000 people (with about a fifth directly employed). It has not experienced such a shutdown since the the foot-and-mouth crisis of 2001.
Racing is the second-best attended sport in the UK after football, and supports a number of other ancillary sectors, from horse training and transportation, to catering, media coverage and gambling.
Media reports have put the overall cost to racing at between £150m to £200m, with concerns that the shutdown - including the Super Saturday meeting at Newbury - will cost betting firms £2m a day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47169299
Four new positive tests for equine flu have been returned in vaccinated thoroughbreds at the Newmarket yard of flat trainer Simon Crisford.
Racing is on hold until at least Wednesday while the British Horseracing Authority tests horses nationwide.
The suspension came after the discovery on Thursday of six cases of equine flu at Donald McCain's Cheshire stable.
Crisford's yard was named so "the Newmarket community is aware" where the infection has been found, the BHA said.
The yard is one of the 174 to be tested because runners from the stable competed at the fixture at Newcastle on 5 February, which had been identified as a potential risk fixture.
All the affected horses are contained within Crisford's yard, the BHA said.
The BHA is set to announce when racing can begin again on Monday evening
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/47193751
A racecourse has vowed to take a “zero tolerance” approach after a mass brawl broke out at Haydock Park on Merseyside.
Footage posted on social media showed about 40 men piling in as two groups traded blows.
As horrified spectators watched on, a woman clutching a small child had to be led to safety after appearing to get caught up in the fighting.
Stewards then intervened to keep the two sides apart.
A Haydock Park spokesman said: "We take a zero tolerance position on anti-social behaviour.
"The perpetrators were ejected at the time and we are continuing to work with the police on this matter."
The issue of violence on racecourses captured the headlines last year, when fights broke out at Goodwood and Ascot on successive weekends.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/haydock-park-brawl-mass-punch-up-erupts-at-merseyside-racecourse-as-mother-and-child-get-caught-up-in-fighting/ar-BBTGtfd?ocid=spartandhp