FOOT AND MOUTH MEETING PLANNED The transport of racehorses during the latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease will be one of the topics discussed by racing`s rulers at a meeting tomorrow.Jockey Club press officer John Maxse said today: 'There will be a meeting at Portman Square tomorrow morning which will include representatives from the Jockey Club, British Horseracing Board, the Racecourse Association and the National Trainers' Federation together with representatives from the Animal Health Trust and either attendants or a direct line with the Ministry of Agriculture.'They will be hearing expert views and advice on foot and mouth and they will be considering the implications of various scenarios. One of the points discussed will be the general transport of horses including horses from overseas.'Newcastle`s meeting scheduled for tomorrow was called off yesterday because it fell within a 10-mile exclusion zone around an infected area.Although horses are not affected by the disease they can carryit and racing was halted for six weeks in the 1967/8 season during the last serious outbreak.
