Barn 4 at Mahoning Valley Race Course will be quarantined for a minimum of 14 additional days following a positive test for Strangles of an unraced 2-year-old Wednesday afternoon. All 70 horses in the barn were swabbed Tuesday and were tested by the Ohio Department of Agriculture lab and that was the only positive.
The horse which tested positive and three other horses which have shown symptoms in barn 4 will be removed from the grounds and relocated to private farms.
Beginning Friday, November 29th training hours will be altered as follows;
General population training hours 7am to 9:15am
Break 9:15am to 9:45am
Barn 4 training hours 9:45am to 10:30am
Starting gate hours 8am to 9:15am
The stable gate remains open for horses shipping in or out of Mahoning Valley.