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Ninth horse dies at Santa Anita

Santa Anita had its ninth death of the racing and training season when Chosen Vessel became the fourth fatality on the track’s turf course Saturday due to a fractured left front ankle. The season started on Dec. 26. The 5-year-old gelding was pulled up by jockey Edwin Maldonado as he approached the far turn in the ninth and final race of the card, a 1 1/8 mile turf race for allowance horses for a purse of $59,000. This is the first fatality for trainer Craig Dollase since the horse death situation became critical early last year. Last

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Equine coronavirus detected in 2 California horses

The virus is not contagious to people, but it is easily transmitted to other horses through equine fecal matter and saliva

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USDA confirms 4th case of mad cow disease in US

The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the nation’s food supply. The infected cow, the fourth ever discovered in the U.S., was found as part of an Agriculture Department surveillance program that tests about 40,000 cows a year for the fatal brain disease. No meat from the cow was bound for the food supply, said John Clifford, the department’s chief veterinary officer. “There is really no cause for alarm here

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Equine influenza confirmed in California horse

One horse has a confirmed case of equine influenza, said Dr. William Gray, a veterinarian with the Cottonwood Veterinary Clinic. He said a swab sample was tested and verified today by the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of California, Davis.

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