Strangles

Biosecurity Initiative Grant For Equine Guelph

November 04, 2011

From sporadic disease to outbreaks, infectious diseases have a tremendous impact on the equine industry and highlight the need for increased biosecurity awareness and education.

Northern Ontario Strangles Outbreak

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs has recently been made aware of a number of premises in the Greater Sudbury area and Manitoulin Island affected by Strangles.

MPHRC: Strangles Confirmed In Early March

In a notice to the industry dated March 9, 2011, the Maritime Provinces Harness Racing Commission announced that there has been a confirmed case of Strangles at a riding horse stable in the eastern pa...

Strangles Cancels RCMP Musical Ride

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride Branch has announced that it has cancelled all previously scheduled performances in Saskatchewan and Alberta between July 2 to July 20, 2010, inclusively...

Quarantined Hoosier Horses Removed

September 30, 2009

Hoosier Park Racing and Casino has detected two horses in the quarantine barn exhibiting fever. As a precautionary measure, both horses have been removed from the grounds into a secondary quarantine f...

Tests Returned For Quarantined Horses

September 23, 2009

Hoosier Park Racing and Casino received test results back from horses quarantined on the backstretch for Streptococcus equi (equine strangles).

Hoosier Strangles Cases Confirmed

September 16, 2009

Hoosier Park Racing and Casino received confirmation today that the two horses previously exhibiting signs of Streptococcus equi (equine strangles), have been confirmed positive.

Barn Quarantined At Hoosier Park

September 12, 2009

Hoosier Park Racing and Casino took precautionary measures today when symptoms of a case of Streptococcus equi (strangles), a contagious bacterial disease, was suspected in a thoroughbred racehorse on...

Strangles At Saratoga

A case of strangles was confirmed in Drew Bromac N, a horse stabled at Saratoga Raceway, on Saturday, May 9. Many tracks have since banned horses that were recently at the New York state racetrack.

Dr. Moore Talks Strangles

With strangles outbreaks in both eastern and western Canada, Dr. Alison Moore has provided Trot Insider with some in-depth information about Streptococcus equi.

Truro Card This Sunday

Truro Raceway has been cleared to resume its 2009 race meet and race secretary Joe Kelly says the track will stage a race program on Sunday, March 8.

Strangles Death At Northlands

It has been reported that Northlands Park has been forced to close a barn on its premises due to a strangles outbreak that recently claimed the life of a standardbred during the recently-concluded mee...