The Festival meeting at Cheltenham is looming next month and many valuable trials for those races are scheduled over the next two weeks 1.57pm GMT The equine flu outbreak in Australia in 2007 was much more serious than this latest incident threatens to be. Here’s our racing correspondent Greg Wood on the background to that story. 1.24pm GMT The reason Wolverhampton has been called off on Saturday is reportedly that a horse from Donald McCain’s yard ran earlier this week. Racing journalist and handicapper Terry Norman has some interesting background on what is happening in stables around Britain now:Any horse that ran at Wolverhampton (now in deep clean mode) – where the virus started – on Monday is now being swabbed. James Tate and Mick Appleby are in lockdown and all costs for the tests are being met by the BHA. Surely there is no way racing can resume over weekend. Continue reading…
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