Turfway Park heightened precautionary measures Dec. 23 after a 3-year-old filly was diagnosed with equine herpesvirus, a contagious disease with respiratory and neurological signs.


The filly, trained by Chuck Simon, was shipped Dec. 21 to Hagyard-Davidson-McGee in Lexington, where she was diagnosed with equine herpesvirus and subsequently euthanatized, according to published reports. Simon had said earlier the filly hadn’t even had a fever before she began showing signs of suspected equine herpesvirus.


“We didn’t want her to suffer anymore,” Simon told Associated Press.


Barn 26, where the filly was stabled, was put under quarantine Dec. 21 pending results of the tests. The barn, which houses more than 40 horses under the care of several trainers, remains under quarantine

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