Passport and Vaccination Rules for Pony Club
Please ensure that your horse or pony has up to date Vaccinations and remember to bring your horses passport with you to PC competitions.
The following rules will apply to all Pony Club Competitions:
Passports
The Vaccination Rule is available on the Pony Club website with the rulebooks. This has been simplified so that the vaccination schedule for Pony Club activities requires a booster every 12 months. Please be aware that other organisations and event venues may have different requirements, including Pony Racing and some racecourses.
To protect the health of all horses and ponies and the biosecurity of the venue, the following rules will apply to all Pony Club activities. Events that are held at some venues may be subject to additional rules. e.g. any horse /pony entering a licensed racecourse property must comply with the vaccination requirements as set by the British Horseracing Authority.
- Passports
A valid passport and vaccination record:
• must accompany the horse / pony to all events
• must be available for inspection by the event officials
• must be produced on request at any other time during the event
- No horse / pony may should attend an activity, compete or be present at the event as a companion unless it has a Record of Vaccination against equine influenza completed by the veterinary surgeon who gave the vaccination, signed and stamped line by line, which complies with the Minimum.
Vaccination Requirements set out in the Equine Influenza Vaccination Schedule below:
- Equine Influenza Vaccination Schedule: Requirements set out in the Equine Influenza Vaccination Schedule below.
All horses and ponies receiving a new primary course of vaccinations must be vaccinated according to this schedule:
- initial primary course of two vaccinations (V1 and V2) must be given: the second vaccination (V2) must be administered within 21-60 days of the first initial vaccination (V1)
- Horses may attend activities 7 full days after receiving the second vaccination of the primary course (V2).
- A first booster vaccination (V3) must be administered within 120 – 180 days of the administration of the second vaccination of the primary course.
- Thereafter booster vaccinations must be administered at a maximum of 12 months intervals.
Horses and ponies must not attend activities within 7 days of receiving any vaccination. For clarity: no horse or pony may compete on the same day as a relevant injection is given or on any of the 6 days following such an
injection.
NB: This is the minimally appropriate booster schedule; it is highly recommended that horses and ponies competing regularly and travelling around the UK and abroad follow an optimal schedule and receive a booster within 6 months +21 days prior to arrival at the event or activity, in line with the FEI protocol.
Restart
Any horse which is found to have breached the requirements above in relation to V1 (initial vaccination); V2 (second vaccination) and V3 (first booster), or exceeded 12 months between subsequent boosters, must restart and receive a minimum of V1 & V2 and had a 7 day post-vaccine stand-down before being allowed entry to any Pony Club activity.
EVH 1
PC advice is that organizers must prevent horses from being presented for admission to a gathering in the following circumstances:
- Any horse with recent cough or nasal discharge of unknown cause, enlarged lymph nodes or fever.
- Any horse which is known or under investigation for EHV infection (whether associated with respiratory or neurological signs).
- Any horse which has been in contact with, or lives on the same premises as, a horse known or under investigation for EHV associated with neurological signs.
- Where a horse has been excluded due to neurological EHV or neurological EHV-contact, future admission should require that:
- EITHER all horses on the property have close clinical monitoring with twice-daily temperature recording and the excluded status should apply until all horses on the premises have been free of clinical signs for at least 28 days.
- OR a detailed veterinary report should be presented to the Pony Club Veterinarian Advisor including robust laboratory evidence to show that the horse intended for admission to a gathering has not been infected with neurological EHV
https://www.britishequestrian.org.uk/news/ehv-1-outbreak-in-valencia-and-several-other-eu-countries