23rd September 2007, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: gippsland lakes/vic
Posts: 5,104
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Originally Posted by Silver_and_sand
Just read a good article in The Age which answers your question. In short, 1 in 50 horses will have a mild reaction to the vaccination shot, but they're right again within a few days. It seems the other 49 horses can continue with training as normal.
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Phil Purser's take on horses after having vaccinations when arriving OS [compulsory]:
"It obviously didn’t affect Miss Andretti or Takeover Target in their recent trip to England, but Scotland Yard are still searching for Bentley Biscuit and Magnus.
Now they can use any excuse they like, but Bentley Biscuit and Magnus were not 20 lengths inferior to the other two when they got on the plane and left Australia, so what happened? They said Bentley Biscuit “jarred up,” but the inoculation may have flattened the horse. Then Pompeii Ruler had form before he went to Dubai, but he wouldn’t have beaten one of the Sheik’s prize camels over there. What an embarrassment that was. Look how a genuine “champion” mare like Makybe Diva went to Japan and nearly held up the next. Why?"
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