Palm Beach International Equestrian Center Denies Entry of Horse With High Temperature that Tests Negative for Equine Herpes Virus

WELLINGTON, Florida, Mar. 10, 2021–A horse with a high temperature was refused entry to the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center Wednesday but tested negative for Equine Herpes Virus that the Winter Equestrian Festival organizers said showed the need for biosecurity precautions that are required throughout the dressage and jumping show grounds.

Equestrian Sport Productions (ESP) that organizes the Winter Equestrian Festival of jumpers and hunters and the Global Dressage Festival thast is staging an international para dressage competition this week gave a detailed description of the procedures surrounding the horse.

Jumping competitions have been staged at the sprawling PBIEC facility almost weekly since the end of May without any siginificant incidents involving coronavirus while dressage began in December. Both are in the final weeks of the winter-long circuits that have applied biosecurity protocols for humans as a result of the year-long coronavirus pandemic and for horses amidst the Equine Herpes Virus EHV-1 that has spread throughout Europe in the past six weeks leading to a lockdown of horse shows in several nations.

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