10:28One of the major concerns about the equine flu outbreak was the fact that there were runners from Ireland at Ayr yesterday, potentially putting the sport across the Irish Sea at risk. The Ayr runners were from the Gordon Elliott yard, and the trainer has just issued this statement via his Betfair blog:“The horses we ran at Ayr yesterday never came back to our yard and instead went to a non-racing isolation yard that is about twenty five minutes away from where we are based. “We’ve been told that the chances of this effecting [sic] our runners from yesterday is very remote but we can’t take any chances whatsoever and those horses that went to Ayr will be quarantined as long as they have to be. “Hopefully everything will get back to normal in Britain as quickly as possible but from our point of view it’s business as usual and we’re sending seven horses to Thurles today.”

Source: The Guardian February 07, 2019 10:07 UTC