SIX NSW police horses have tested positive to equine influenza and all horses at an inner-Sydney police depot are now under quarantine, state Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald says.
Mr Macdonald said the positive tests meant the horses could not be removed from the police depot in Bourke St, Redfern, for several weeks.
"All the horses tested positive to H3N8 (horse flu)," Mr Macdonald said today.
"That means they cannot be moved for up to two months."
At least 58 horses in NSW, on nine different properties, are now infected with equine influenza.
Another 615 horses are in formal quarantine.
Mr Macdonald did not say if this meant there would be no police horses available for officers to use during protests at the APEC summit.
That was a matter for Premier Morris Iemma, he said.
But the police horses would be subject to the normal quarantine procedures across the state.
"I understand most of the horses are stabled at Redfern and that particular area will be subjected to the strictest quarantine," Mr Macdonald said.
Mr Macdonald said later authorities suspected the horses had been infected by police riders, some of whom had been at the Hunter Valley riding event believed to be the source of the outbreak.
"It looks as though a couple of the police riders attended that Maitland event, that may have been the source, that's what I've been informed," Mr Macdonald told Macquarie Radio.
The minister said no police horses had attended the event but the infection might have been transferred from the riders' clothing.
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