Devastated.

That’s how horse lovers associated with Sunset Hill Farm described their emotions as five of their beloved animals succumbed to the Equine Herpes Virus since late January.

State officials issued a quarantine then, which they lifted about two weeks ago. The Bartlett farm, which subsequently imposed its own voluntary quarantine as a precaution, is now virus-free. Three of the horses that tested positive for the virus survived and no horse has tested positive for the virus for at least 28 days.

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