Valley runner returns strangles positive – Racing.com

Three stables have been locked down, two more are on high alert and part of Geelong’s training facilities are closed after the Danielle Loos-trained Naval Envoy raced at The Valley on Sunday with strangles.
But Racing Victoria stewards are confident that there wasn’t any race-day transmission of the highly infectious disease, which was only discovered by vets post-race after the horse was a well-beaten favourite.
Loos told Racing.com Naval Envoy had a small abscess that would come and go, but …

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