A second barn at Turfway Park has been quarantined because of equine herpesvirus, which was first discovered at the Northern Kentucky racetrack the week before Christmas.

One horse in Barn 27 has tested positive for the virus, Turfway president Bob Elliston said the evening of Jan. 6. Because of that, the barn, which houses 40-50 horses trained by Dale Romans and Mike Tammaro, was placed under quarantine late in the afternoon of Jan. 6.

Barn 26, where the first cases of equine herpesvirus were diagnosed, remains under quarantine. Though the most recent test results from that barn produced two more positive cases of the neurological disease, 16 horses that previously showed signs of the disease came back negative, Elliston said.

“This is what the (Kentucky) Department of Agriculture said we should expect,” Elliston said. “Those affected by the virus are shedding it without it being manifested into clinical disease. And though we only had one horse in Barn 27 (test positive), you have to quarantine the whole barn. We want to do everything we possibly can to prevent the spread of the virus