Lavington Stud

CODE OF PRACTICE
2007 COVERING SEASON

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Lavington Stud will follow The Horserace Betting Levy Board's Code of Practice with respect to the control of Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA), Equine Herpesvirus EHV-1), Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) and other Equine Bacterial Venereal Diseases. These and other details are attached.
2. The Equine Veterinary Hospital, Arundel will continue to carry out all veterinary work in consultation with Lavington Stud. Details of their 'all-in' veterinary scheme are enclosed. Veterinary invoices will be sent direct to Owners and will not normally form part of the keep invoices for the Stud.
3. Passports must accompany the mare at all times.
4. Details of Mare Form and Mare Certificate must be completed and returned to the Stud before the mares arrival, or accompany her when she arrives.
5. All non walk-in mares will be wormed on arrival at Lavington Stud.
6. All foals will be injected with tetanus antitoxin and probiotics will be administered at birth, and blood taken to assess immune transfer.
7. It must be pointed out that in order to establish a successful pregnancy it is recommended that all mares remain at the Stud until after a positive 42 day pregnancy diagnosis.
8. Unless we are informed to the contrary, we reserve the right to suture the vulva of any mare where the veterinary surgeon considers it to be advantageous in getting the mare in foal.
9. The Stud reserves the right to notify the Owner prior to the acceptance of a mare of any special terms or conditions that may be applicable and upon which such acceptance would be conditional.
10. The Stud reserves the right to refuse to accept a mare if in the view of the Stud such refusal would be either reasonable or prudent in all the circumstances of the case.
11. All mares must arrive with a headcollar and identification tag/nameplate.
12. No responsibility is accepted for accidents, resorptions, injuries or diseases which are beyond the reasonable control of the Stud to prevent.

Accounts

Accounts will be rendered each month by Lavington Stud to the Owner, and payment is required in full within twenty-eight (28) days of the date of the account.

Lavington Stud reserves the right to consider any sums unpaid after the said period of twenty-eight days as outstanding, and to charge interest on such sums from the date of the account to the date of payment at a daily rate calculated by reference to a rate of 4% above the base rate of Barclays Bank PLC from time to time.

It is an express condition that Lavington Stud shall be entitled to a lien over an Owner's mare or progeny in its possession in respect of any outstanding monies, whether or not such monies relate to that mare or progeny.

In addition Lavington Stud shall have the power to sell the mare and/or progeny over which such lien is taken to recover such monies (including the interest thereon) and all proper charges and expenses in relation thereto, if such monies should remain unpaid ninety (90) days from the date of the account.

For the purpose of exercising the power of sale the Owner hereby irrevocably appoints Lavington Stud as the Owner's lawful attorney with full power to sell the mare and/or progeny to recover such monies.

KEEP CHARGES 2007

VISITING MATES

In-foal mares	£23 per day
Maiden & Barren mares	£21 per day
Foaling fee	£280
Groom's fee	£75
Walking in mares - admin/handling fee	£80 (one off fee, no matter how many times the mare walks in)

PERMANENT BOARDING RATES

Foaling mares	£20 per day
Maiden & Barren mares	£18 per day
Foals	£18 per day
Yearlings	£19 per day
Yearling sales preparation	£23 per day ) plus agreed commission
Mare & Foal sales preparation	£21 per day ) and sales expenses
Horses out of training	£21 per day

BREEDING REGULATIONS

1. HIGH RISK MARES (those who have had previous contact with CEMO or who originate from countries with CEMO or who originate from countries outside the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom) require:
   Before the first time of covering:
   1. One negative clitoral swab test taken before arrival at Lavington Stud.
   2. One negative clitoral swab test taken at Lavington Stud.
   3. One negative endometrial swab test taken at Lavington Stud during the oestrus prior to service.
   
   
   Negative swab test results must be certified for clearance for CEMO, Klebsiella pneumoniae (capsule types 1,2 & 5) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa by a Horserace Betting Levy Board Designated Laboratory (UK) or other National Approved Laboratories in Ireland or France. Swab certificates from laboratories in other countries will not be accepted and will need to be repeated at Lavington Stud.

   Subsequent walkings-in:
   Repeat negative endometrial swab for each subsequent oestrus period.
   
   

2. LOW RISK MARES require:

   Before first time of covering:
   One negative clitoral swab test and one negative endometrial swab taken during oestrus. Negative swab test results must be certified for clearance for CEMO, Klebsiella pneumoniae (capsule types 1,2 & 5) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa by a Horserace Betting Levy Board Designated Laboratory (UK) or other National Approved Laboratories in Ireland or France. Swab certificates from laboratories in other countries will not be accepted. The Stud Manager may, at his discretion, on veterinary advice, allow mating to proceed on the basis of satisfactory results from aerobic culture of endometrial swabs if adequate clitoral swabbing has already been carried out. However the microaerophilic endometrial swab results should be sent to the stallion stud as soon as they are available.
   Subsequent walkings-in:
   Repeat endometrial swab tests during all subsequent oestrus periods must be cultured aerobically for Klebsiella Pneumoniae & Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, and results certified before mare is covered. Microaerophilic cultures for CEMO are still recommended and full results should follow afterwards if covering has already taken place.
   
   

3. EVA tests to be taken after January 1st 2007.
   1. All mares that have not been outside the United Kingdom and Ireland within the last twelve months will require one negative blood test to be taken after 1st January 2007 and before service. Seropositive mares will require two blood-tests to be taken a minimum of 14 days apart; these should demonstrate a stable or declining titre.
   2. All mares originating from outside the UK and Ireland will require two negative blood tests, the first to be taken within a 28 day period prior to arrival in the UK, with the second to be taken at Lavington Stud, a minimum of 14 days after arrival. Similarly, animals that are seropositive for EVA will require two tests to be taken in the UK. These should be taken a minimum of 14 days apart and demonstrate a stable or declining titre. It is recommended that mares travelling from Mainland Europe should not be traveled with non-thoroughbreds or with any animals that have not been tested for EVA. All correctly completed international travel documents should accompany the mare/s.
   3. NB. If a mare should leave Lavington Stud after service or scanning in foal and thereafter wish to return during further oestrus, it may be necessary to provide a second negative EVA test.
   
   
   These test results must confirm no significant rise in antibody titres (seroconversion).
   
   
4. EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANAEMIA (EIA)
   1. Mares from Mainland Britain will require a negative blood test for EIA taken after 1st January 2007 and before covering. This can be taken at the same time as the test for EVA.
   2. All mares originating from outside Mainland Britain, including those from Northern Ireland, will require a negative blood test for EIA taken no more than 14 days prior to arrival in this country and a second to be taken at Lavington Stud a minimum of 14 days after arrival. This requirement will be reviewed in the event of further cases of EIA being confirmed in Ireland or elsewhere in Europe.
   
   
   
5. STRANGLES
   Owners and managers are required to declare any possible contact or exposure their mares or stud might have had to strangles, over the last two years. The current Code of Practice guidelines on prevention and control will be observed.
   
   
6. EQUINE HERPESVIRUS (EHV-1)
   Only mares fully vaccinated against EHV-1 will be foaled at Lavington Stud in 2007. Mares with foals at foot, barren and maiden mares will be accepted on to the stud as normal. Proof of the vaccinations should be lodged with Lavington Stud before or on arrival.
   Walking in mares will be accepted by prior arrangement with the Stud Manager and will be subject to a handling and administration charge. Sufficient notice must be given.

   The following documents MUST ACCOMPANY THE MARE the first time she walks in for covering:

   1. Clitoral swab certificate(s) - specifically certifying negative culture results for Taylorella equigentalis (CEMO), Klebsiella pneumoniae (capsule types 1,2 & 5) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Negative test results must be certified by a Horserace Betting Levy Board designated Laboratory (UK), or other National approved laboratory in Ireland or France. Certificates from laboratories outside these three countries will not be accepted.
   2. Cervical/endometrial swab certificate - specifically certifying negative culture results for Taylorella equigentalis (CEMO), Klebsiella pneumoniae (capsule types 1,2 & 5) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Negative test results must be certified by a Horserace Betting Levy Board designated Laboratory (UK), or other National approved laboratory In Ireland or France. Certificates from Laboratories outside these three countries will not be accepted. Additional Cervical swab certificates must be provided for each oestrus period for which the mare is covered. CEMO cultural results may follow but Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa results must be certified before the mare is covered.
   3. A passport or fully legible photocopy (to include number, markings and vaccinations) MUST accompany the mare on EVERY occasion when walking in. Equine influenza and tetanus vaccinations must be up to date.
   4. Horserace Betting Levy Board or other National Approved Laboratory breeding history certificate (CEM certificate)
   5. A correctly completed N.S.F.A. Freedom from Infection Certificate is required on every occasion that the mare walks in, including cross services.
   6. Negative EVA certificate(s)
   7. Coggins test certificate

   On EVERY occasion that a mare walks in for covering, a written assurance is required from the boarding stud that no Equine Herpesvirus 1 (rhinopneumonitis) abortions, stillbirths or relevant contagious diseases (e.g., EVA, influenza, strangles, salmonellisis) have occurred during the past six weeks or are under investigation.

PLEASE NOTE

1. Additional swabbing and/or other tests may be required in certain circumstances at the stallion stud managers discretion.
2. If a mare is changed from one stallion to another during the course of the breeding season a new clitoral swab, endometrial swab and EVA test will be required. These should be taken no sooner than 7 days after the mare was last covered by the original stallion.