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Quarantine Procedures
The Animal Health Requirements may have changed. Please ask your country's government for details.
All quarantine procedures are based on the special animal health protocols agreed upon between the government authorities of each country and the Japanese Government. Import is thereby under the conditions that the horse will be temporarily imported to Japan to run in a race and will immediately undergo export quarantine after the race.
Therefore, permanent import of the horse, for such reasons as selling the horse in Japan, will not be allowed.
The following quarantine procedures will take place:
| a) | Upon arrival at the international airport, horses must be immediately transported to the Quarantine Center. Japanese Government quarantine officers carry out individual quarantine procedures for the participating horses. However, horses arriving on the same plane will normally be tested together. | |||||||||||||||
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The import quarantine period is a minimum of seven days (arrival and departure date to and from the quarantine is included in the quarantine period). Transportation to the Racecourse is allowed only after the completion of import quarantine. It is necessary to clear all the tests that are required by the Japanese Government during the quarantine period.
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| c) | During the quarantine period, horses must follow the training timetable designated by the quarantine officer | |||||||||||||||
| d) | During the quarantine period, the regulation prohibits Grooms and Exercise Riders from leaving the Quarantine Center. | |||||||||||||||
| e) | On the last day of the quarantine period, a test for equine influenza will be conducted by an official JRA veterinarian in addition to a Japanese Government test. | |||||||||||||||
| f) | After being cleared from quarantine, necessary follow up measures will be instituted at the Racecourse for epidemic prevention. | |||||||||||||||
| g) | Under the quarantine conditions applied to foreign trained horses, the Government mandates that the period of stay of a horse in Japan shall be 60 days or less (from the day of release from import quarantine up to the day before export quarantine). | |||||||||||||||
| h) | The export quarantine will be conducted at the Racecourse. The period is one day or less. However, this is not applicable in cases where the Government of the importing country (e.g. Australia) requires more days of the quarantine period than that which is prescribed by the Japanese Government. | |||||||||||||||
Quarantine Centers
■Shiroi Quarantine Center:
Located in an area of the JRA Horse Racing School premises, about one hour (by van) from the Narita International Airport. The facility has a dirt track of 1,400 meters in circumference, which is available for scheduled training.
Quarantine Center (JRA Horse Racing School)
TEL:+81-47-491-0333 FAX:+81-47-491-3601
Barns: 36, Rooms: 72
| To Tokyo Racecourse: | 65km/40.6 miles | about 2 hours by horse van |
| To Kyoto Racecourse: | 500km/312.5 miles | about 9 hours by horse van |
| To Hanshin Racecourse: | 550km/343.5 miles | about 10 hours by horse van |
■Miki Horse Land Park: (http://www.miki-hlp.or.jp/):
Quarantine Center located in the Miki Horse Land Park, which is a public operated foundation, about two hours from the Kansai International Airport. It has a track of 880 meters in circumference and 10 meters wide, and a smaller inner track of 627 meters in circumference and 10 meters wide.
Quarantine center (Miki Horse Land Park)
Tel:+81-794-83-8110 Fax:+81-794-83-8081
Barns: 14, Room: 28
| From Kansai International Airport: | 150km/93.5 miles | about 2.5 hours by horse van |
| To Kyoto Racecourse: | 90km/56.5 miles | about 2 hours by horse van |
| To Hanshin Racecourse: | 50km/32.5 miles | about 1.5 hours by horse van |
