Quarantine Starts!

After weeks of preparation, including extensive installation of signage and barriers, pre-export quarantine for the Singapore horses began at Glen Haven Park, on 15 June 2010. AQIS visited on Tuesday and issued their 'Approval of Premises for the Pre-Export Isolation of Horses' Certificate, so all was in order to begin quarantine immediately. The horses will be in pre-export quarantine from 15 June to 15 July - when they fly out to Singapore.

What does Pre-Export Quarantine mean for the horses and people of Glen Haven Park?

It means that the horses must be isolated from all other horses who are not going to Singapore and will only have limited contact with authorised personnel (grooms, trainers, farriers and vets). However, their training at Glen Haven Park will continue as usual, up until their departure for Singapore. They also have an extensive vaccination and testing schedule to prepare them for export.

For personnel, quarantine means staying away from all other horses, wearing dedicated outer clothing and footwear in the quarantine area when handling the horses, walking through a disinfectant footbath and washing or sanitising hands on entering the quarantine area. There is a visitors log now in place at Glen Haven Park, which everyone who enters the premises must sign, even if they are not going into the Quarantine area. There is also a list of personnel, who are allowed to enter the Quarantine area, posted on the gate and if you are not on the list there is strictly no entry into the area.

Quarantine is a serious business and everyone at Glen Haven are taking it very seriously indeed, following all rules and precautions to the the letter. So, we have no doubt that the horses will do us proud and be in perfect health when the time comes for them to jet off to Singapore!