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...Today the Lipizzaners face a new enemy: a deadly virus of the herpes family. The disease has not hit the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, the showcase for the horses, but by the end of last week it had killed seven mares and 27 foals at the Piber stud farm, 150 miles south of the city. The outbreak is one of the most severe in the history of the disease...
...March, many of the mares were aborting their foals. Miscarriages are a common effect of herpes, but the next phase of the disease is not. The unusually virulent form of the virus slowly killed the seven mares by paralyzing their nervous systems. Mourns Heinrich Lehrner, head of the Piber stud farm: "Every one of the horses that have died was like a member of a big family...
...knows for sure why the Lipizzaners were hit so hard by a disease that is usually not life-threatening. Dr. Erwin Rothensteiner, a veterinarian with the Austrian government, suggests that the stud-farm horses may have inadequate defenses against the virus because they have been isolated and inbred over the years...
...will spread to the famed troupe in Vienna since all contact with Piber has been cut off. Although the epidemic will reduce the number of Lipizzaners to be trained for show in future years, it is unlikely to threaten the group's existence. The remaining horses at the stud farm have been quarantined, and breeding plans have not been altered. And at Lipizzaner farms elsewhere in Europe, there is no sign, so far, of herpes...
Because combining proven bloodlines is the point in breeding, buying shares in a superstar like Shergar is as close to a sure thing as there is in horse racing. According to one British breeder, the price of Shergar's stud service was $46,200 in advance plus $46,200 more after conception. Last year all but two of Shergar's mares were successfully impregnated...