Horse flu restrictions may hurt St Pats nominations

With less than a week to go, the St Patricks Racing committee anticipates it will have lower horse numbers due to equine influenza.
Under current guidelines, if South Australian horses have not been immunised and had a booster shot, they cannot race.
Nominations closed this morning at 10:30am AEDT, and organisers are concerned that the input of South Australian horses, who usually provide 65 per cent of the race fields, will be down.
Far west racing steward Trevor Odgers says if the final number of horses is low, they may have to extend nominations.
"If we haven't got enough in each race, obviously we'll extend the nominations and hopefully we'll have full fields," he said.