Well the start to our show season is being delayed a month or so. We were supposed to leave for Thermal on Saturday, but scratched last Tuesday. DIHP put out a small little blurb last Monday about "a small number of horses" testing positive for equine influenza, but not to worry because they had been removed from the show grounds and were in a quarantine facility.
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| Cinder was not pleased at getting a bath for a full body clip, now all for naught |
Our vet is an FEI vet who has worked with the main show vet at DIHP in the past. She called him up and asked what exactly was going on. Allegedly there were 10 horses that tested positive, all vaccinated, and it appears that its a new strain of flu. She strongly recommended that we do not go, and if we did, that we should quarantine the horses when returning to Oregon.
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| Kill me |
Combine that with the weather forecast for our week there, and all four of us going decided to scratch. There's no way our horses, or us humans, would have been ok with showing in that heat. It's hasn't broken 70 here in Oregon and the shock of going to 107 would have been cruel. Let alone hauling in that heat.
I'm taking this as a sign from the universe that I'm supposed to show in Thermal in the fall, hopefully at Adult Hunter Finals if we can qualify.
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