NSW racing gone for at least 2mths. What odds a meeting in Vic. on Sat.?

The horse flu crisis in New South Wales has worsened with eight thoroughbreds at a stable at Randwick Racecourse testing positive to the virus.

Randwick will be shut down for at least two months, with all 700 horses there expected to contract the virus. The closure throws the Sydney Spring Carnival into chaos.

A property at Kaarimba, in Victoria's Goulburn Valley, has been quarantined while horses are tested for flu. Up to 60 horses are in quarantine. The owners say the horses competed in Tatura, near Shepparton, on the weekend where horses from NSW competed who had illegally crossed the border and may have passed through infected areas.