A restriction on horses shipping between Philadelphia Park Racetrack and Penn National Race Course due to three horses testing positive for equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) at Penn National might be lifted early next week, officials for both Pennsylvania racetracks said Wednesday.

“Although three horses from trainer Bob Wolfe did test positive, we had some good news recently,” said Richard Schnaars, general manager of Penn National.  “We sent blood samples (all from Wolfe’s stable) to the Gluck research center in Kentucky and, other than those three horses, the rest came back negative

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