Race horses in Sydney affected by flu outbreak, meet to be postponed

One of Australia’s biggest race meets — the Sydney spring carnival — was postponed after eight of 10 horses from a Randwick stable tested positive Thursday for equine influenza. Ian Macdonald, the primary industries minister for New South Wales state, said the Sydney race meet would have to be put off or canceled and that the quarantine would extend for 30 days from the last case of equine flu.