Australian quarantine to hit Irish stud owners

IRISH stud owners with valuable stallions now quarantined in Australia, where equine flu is spreading, will be hard hit financially if the lock-down continues.

The outbreak that has brought Australia ‘s multi-billion euro horse racing industry to a standstill is starting to spread with many horses now displaying symptoms of the disease.

Fifteen of Ireland’s leading stallions are among 80 horses being held at two quarantine centres in Sydney and Melbourne.