EHV-1 has taken over the western industry and has made times very uncertain. While there is no time that is a good time to have an outbreak like this, it feels increasingly unfortunate that it happened moments before the National Finals Rodeo.
It is still unknown where this originally started, but one thing quickly became clear: WPRA finals had many horses that got sick and multiple died from the mutated strain, EHM. With this in mind, the barrel racers for this year’s NFR could ultimately be the most impacted with the implemented quarantine.
There could be quite a few horses that were expected to run at the Thomas & Mack, but will not be in attendance and one of those is unfortunately Halyn Lide’s Jettin Ta Heaven aka Keeper, her No.1 mount…