Laurel Park resumes taking outside entries

Sports Digest

November 19, 2008

Horses from outside Laurel Park and the Bowie Training Center are being allowed to run at Laurel Park under certain conditions. The restrictions forbidding off-site horses to run at the racetrack are being eased after test results for neurologic equine herpesvirus for more than 50 horses came back negative the past several days. Restrictions have been in place at Laurel since Friday after a 2-year-old filly became ill and tested positive for the condition. The filly was euthanized Saturday, but no other horses have shown symptoms of the disease and tests results on all other horses have been negative. Since Friday, only horses stabled at Laurel or at the Bowie Training Center have been allowed to race at the track. Now, off-site runners will be allowed to race, but horses who enter the track will have to be stabled at Laurel until the Maryland Department of Agriculture lifts a hold on the barn where the affected filly was stabled. That hold, which limits movement of the approximately two dozen horses in the barn, could be in place until Dec.6, which is 21 days after the last clinical evidence of virus in the barn (the day the filly was euthanized). The Agriculture Department said "an aggressive testing protocol along with no positive tests or signs of disease may allow the hold order to be released" earlier than Dec.6. BILL ORDINE

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