Piroplasmosis: Calder Race Course Lifts Restrictions

Calder Casino & Race Course said Oct. 16 that it has lifted racing and training restrictions on horses stabled at the Racetrack Training Center, which is adjacent to Calder’s stables. The 78 horses at that training center are permitted to train and race at the Miami Gardens, Fla., track effective Oct. 16. The Florida Veterinary Medical Association told Calder officials tha
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Calder Casino & Race Course said Oct. 16 that it has lifted racing and training restrictions on horses stabled at the Racetrack Training Center, which is adjacent to Calder's stables.

The 78 horses at that training center are permitted to train and race at the Miami Gardens, Fla., track effective Oct. 16. The Florida Veterinary Medical Association told Calder officials that those horses have tested negative for equine piroplasmosis (EP), a tick-borne non-contagious blood disease.

Calder is waiting for test results on approximately 40 other horses in one of its barns that is adjacent to the training center.

Pending results of tests, horses in that barn remain under restrictions that Calder put in place Sept. 12 after a horse that moved recently from New Mexico to Florida tested positive for the EP virus, Equine piroplasmosis results from infection by the protozoa Babesia caballi or Theileria equi (formerly Babesia equi). In most cases, piroplasmosis presents an acute infection, with fever, loss of appetite, malaise, labored or rapid respiration, and congestion of the mucus membranes. In rare cases the disease can be fatal

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