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The Horserace Betting Levy Board’s Code of Practice will be strictly applied with respect to the control of Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA), Equid Herpesvirus (EHV-1), Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA), Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) and other Equine Bacterial Venereal Diseases, as well as additional precautions that are considered necessary by the Newmarket Stud Farmers Association
A. HIGH RISK MARES (those who have had previous contact with CEMO or who originate from countries with CEMO or who originate from countries outside the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom) require:
Before first time of covering:
1.One negative clitoral swab test taken before arrival at boarding stud.
2.One negative clitoral swab test taken at boarding stud.
3.One negative endometrial swab test taken at the boarding stud during the oestrus prior to service.
Negative swab test results must be certified for clearance for CEMO, Klebsiella pneumoniae (capsule types 1, 2, & 5) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa by a Horserace Betting Levy Board Designated Laboratory (UK) or other National Approved Laboratories in Ireland or France. Swab certificates from laboratories in other countries will not be accepted and will need to be repeated at the boarding stud.
Subsequent walkings-in:
Repeat negative endometrial swab for each subsequent oestrus period
B. LOW RISK MARES require:
Before first time of covering:
One negative clitoral swab test and one negative endometrial swab taken during oestrus. Negative swab test results must be certified for clearance for CEMO, Klebsiella pneumoniae (capsule types 1, 2, & 5) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa by a Horserace Betting Levy Board Designated Laboratory (UK) or other National Approved Laboratories in Ireland or France. Swab certificates from laboratories in other countries will not be accepted. The Stallion Stud Manager may, at his or her discretion, on veterinary advice, allow mating to proceed on the basis of satisfactory results from aerobic culture of endometrial swabs if adequate clitoral swabbing has already been carried out. However the microaerophilic endometrial swab results should be sent to the stallion stud as soon as they are available.
Subsequent walkings-in:
Repeat endometrial swab tests during all subsequent oestrus periods must be cultured aerobically for Klebsiella Pneumoniae & Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, and results certified before mare is covered. Microaerophilic cultures for CEMO are still recommended and full results should follow afterwards if covering has already taken place.
C. EVA tests to be taken after January 1st 2008
All mares that have not been outside the United Kingdom and Ireland within the last twelve months will require one negative blood test to be taken after 1st January 2008 and before service. Seropositive mares will require two blood-tests to be taken a minimum of 14 days apart; these should demonstrate a stable or declining titre.
- All mares originating from outside the UK and Ireland will require two negative blood tests, the first to be taken within a 28 day period prior to arrival in the UK, with the second to be taken at the boarding stud, a minimum of 14 days after arrival. Similarly, animals that are seropositive for EVA will require two tests to be taken in the UK. These should be taken a minimum of 14 days apart and demonstrate a stable or declining titre. It is recommended that mares traveling from Mainland Europe should not be traveled with non-thoroughbreds or with any animals that have not been tested for EVA. All correctly completed international travel documents should accompany the mare/s.
- NB. If a mare should leave the boarding stud after service or scanning in foal and thereafter wish to return during further oestrus, it may be necessary to provide a second negative EVA test.
These test results must confirm no significant rise in antibody titres (seroconversion).
D.EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANAEMIA (EIA)
- All mares that have NOT been outside the United Kingdom and Ireland within the last 12 months will require one negative blood test for EIA to be taken after 1st January 2008.
- All mares originating from OUTSIDE the United Kingdom and Ireland will require a negative blood test for EIA taken no more than 14 days prior to arrival in this country. A second blood test must be taken at the boarding stud, prior to covering, a minimum of 14 days after arrival. Further blood tests must be taken as required to ensure that the mare is tested within 21 days prior to, and as close as possible to, EACH COVERING until a final blood test has been taken a minimum 60 days after the mares arrival in this country.
- Any mare arriving from ITALY with a foal at foot will require a blood test for EIA to be taken from the foal a minimum of 14 days after arrival in this country.
E. STRANGLES
Owners and managers are required to declare any possible contact or exposure their mares or stud might have had to strangles, over the last two years. The current Code of Practice guidelines on prevention and control will be observed.
The following documents MUST ACCOMPANY THE MARE the first time she walks in for covering:
- Clitoral swab certificate(s) – specifically certifying negative culture results for Taylorella equigentalis (CEMO), Klebsiella pneumoniae (capsule types 1, 2 & 5) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Negative test results must be certified by a Horserace Betting Levy Board designated Laboratory (UK), or other National approved laboratory in Ireland or France. Certificates from Laboratories outside these three countries will not be accepted.
- Cervical/endometrial swab certificate –– specifically certifying negative culture results for Taylorella equigentalis (CEMO), Klebsiella pneumoniae (capsule types 1, 2 & 5) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Negative test results must be certified by a Horserace Betting Levy Board designated Laboratory (UK), or other National approved laboratory in Ireland or France. Certificates from Laboratories outside these three countries will not be accepted. Addition Cervical swab certificates must be provided for each oestrus period for which mare is covered. CEMO cultural results may follow but Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa results must be certified before the mare is covered.
- A passport or fully legible photocopy (to include number, markings and vaccinations) MUST accompany the mare on EVERY occasion when walking in. Equine influenza and tetanus vaccinations must be up to date.
- Horserace Betting Levy Board or other National Approved Laboratory breeding history certificate (CEM certificate)
- A correctly completed N.S.F.A. Freedom from Infection Certificate is required on every occasion that the mare walks in, including cross services.
- Negative EVA test certificate(s)
- Negative EIA test certificate(s)
PLEASE NOTE
- Additional swabbing and/or other tests may be required in certain circumstances at the stallion stud managers discretion.
- If a mare is changed from one stallion to another during the course of the breeding season a new clitoral swab, endometrial swab and EVA test will be required. These should be taken no sooner than 7 days after the mare was last covered by the original stallion.
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