Sports officials have banned moving thoroughbreds out of New Jersey after a suspected outbreak of equine herpes at Monmouth Park.

Suspicions arose when five horses in the same barn contracted a fever over the weekend, according to Dennis Dowd, senior vice president of racing for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which owns and operates the Meadowlands and Monmouth Park. The barn was quarantined as a precaution.

And now for cheap jokes: In the meantime, Paris Hilton has been taken in for questioning.

Barbaro was unavailable for comment, but he did have a nasty-looking cold sore.