EIA / Swamp fever - how have the media have got the location wrong!?!

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I am assuming everyone knows that the outbreak has occurred in Braydon (Minety) NOT Baydon (Lambourn).

How on earth have the media got it so wrong? The H&H report this week even states the fact that it is highly worrying for the racing world, being so close to Lambourn...but in actual fact it is nowhere near! Who is to blame for the wrong location having been published?

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Hmmm well eyewitness tells me that Defra have been all over a yard that is far more Baydon than Braydon...
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I will go get some more details as don't want to speculate and panic anyway but the yard I know about is more Swindon area, will triple check.
 
There is a well known dealers yard in Braydon which has Defra all over it - they were boxing up and taking horses away last Wednesday. They've also been spraying the fields and contacting people that are nearby.
 
The yard that has it in Braydon is DEFINITELY the one to which the horses from Romania were taken. It is a very well known dealer - the name of whom immediately sprang to my mind (and that of anyone else I know around here) who knows the area.

Weezy - the yard that has been shut down is not really that far from Swindon...! But to my knowledge, there is not a problem in Baydon - at least not one like the media are trying to make us believe...
 
If DEFRA would do their job and act properly regarding horse transport within the EU this wouldn't have happened. For years the ILPH and others have been campaigning against long-distance transport etc and having been in the situation in the last 5 years of looking for a suitable horse; I did see a lot that were "imports" from the continent. Basically, they were all rubbish and one or two were downright dangerous. The contiinentals know that we English are suckers and if they've got something they would otherwise send for slaughter and they can bung a saddle on it and call it "ridden" and sell it for a hugely inflated price then they'll do so. Some of the imported horses I saw were advertised as being "bombproof" believe it or not.

Sorry, this is my rant, but there are far too many horses being allowed into the UK from outside and sooner or later that is going to bring disease in, and DEFRA is doing sweet FA about it, like it does for everthing else.
 
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Weezy - the yard that has been shut down is not really that far from Swindon...! But to my knowledge, there is not a problem in Baydon - at least not one like the media are trying to make us believe...

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Indeedy - I know the one you are talking about and yes, it is Braydon, no question. Sadly I didn't see the person I wanted to this evening to ask exact location of the yard I was told about...fact is it is a shame that all of this is not more transparent, cloak and dagger is never a good idea!
 
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If DEFRA would do their job and act properly regarding horse transport within the EU this wouldn't have happened. For years the ILPH and others have been campaigning against long-distance transport etc and having been in the situation in the last 5 years of looking for a suitable horse; I did see a lot that were "imports" from the continent. Basically, they were all rubbish and one or two were downright dangerous. The contiinentals know that we English are suckers and if they've got something they would otherwise send for slaughter and they can bung a saddle on it and call it "ridden" and sell it for a hugely inflated price then they'll do so. Some of the imported horses I saw were advertised as being "bombproof" believe it or not.

Sorry, this is my rant, but there are far too many horses being allowed into the UK from outside and sooner or later that is going to bring disease in, and DEFRA is doing sweet FA about it, like it does for everthing else.

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I do totally see what you're saying - there should be far tougher guidelines in place. However, my mare was actually imported as one of a job lot by the very dealer we are talking about now, and as much as I do condemn much of what he does, if it wasnt for the likes of him then I wouldnt have my (very much loved!) girlie - who, incidentally, is neither rubbish nor dangerous - she was just a very green baby who had been bashed about a bit, and needed some TLC!
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As someone that's bought and sold with the dealer in question not everything that goes through the yard is rubbish. However in the last 2 years there have been about 50 lorry loads of horses into the yard from the continent and these are the first one's to have been tested (and horses have been brought over like this for at least 15 years) - that's what I find really scary
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