Horse 'flu cans Ross Rodeo

Next month's Ross Rodeo has been cancelled because of concerns about the recent equine influenza outbreak.The event was to have been held early next month but it will now be held in February 2009.
The President of the Ross Rodeo Association, Robert Brown, says it has been cancelled as a precaution.
"Because it's a council ground, if a horse had a cold or anything and we got shut down well we could've been there for a week or a fortnight after the rodeo until the results got back and because it's used by other people in the municipality cricket and everything else and croquet use the ground, we decided to leave it this year," he said.