It’s Monday in Australia (Aug. 27), and horses with fevers are being monitored at Randwick Racecourse in Australia as a precaution during the current outbreak of equine influenza in Australia. RacingandSports.com.au reported the suspect horses are trained by Gai Waterhouse and Bart Cummings. Officials have required trainers at the racetrack to confine horses to their stable compounds.

The article reported that more than 50 horses have tested positive for equine influenza, with 200 more showing symptoms (https://www.racingandsports.com.au/racing/rsNewsArt.asp?NID=110644).

“The Randwick alarm is the first sign that the EI virus has spread to the general Thoroughbred population after previously been identified in recreational horses and stallions in quarantine at Eastern Creek near Sydney,” noted the article