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 Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:41 pm Post subject: 14 horses die just before polo match |
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14 horses die just before polo match
(CNN) -- Fourteen thoroughbred horses dropped dead in a mysterious scene Sunday before a polo match near West Palm Beach, Florida, officials said.
Teams are trying to figure out what happened at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Florida.
State and local veterinary teams are trying to figure out what happened at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington, Florida, as team Lechuza Caracas prepared to compete in a U.S. Open match.
Two horses initially collapsed, and as vets and team officials scrambled to revive them, five others became dizzy, said Tim O'Connor, spokesman for the polo club.
"A total of seven died on our property," O'Connor told CNN. Seven other horses died en route to a Wellington horse farm and a veterinary hospital.
The cause of the deaths has not been determined, and necropsies and blood tests were underway, he said.
O'Connor said each team brings between 40 to 60 horses for matches, and they are continuously switched out throughout a match to keep the horses from overexerting themselves.
A meeting will be held to determine whether Lechuza Caracas will compete at a later date, he said.
"Everybody is kind of in shock and trying to figure out what happened," he said. "Nobody can recall an incident in which this many horses have died at once." |
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Curly
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| Steroid injections? My wife said she might have heard this on the news. Is this right? Has anyone got any updates??
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NMRANCHER
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| Steroid injections? My wife said she might have heard this on the news. Is this right? Has anyone got any updates?? |
They were banding the word"Steroids" in the AM news but I have not seen any 'proof' put out yet. Anyone heard any updates?
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| Curly wrote: |
| Steroid injections? My wife said she might have heard this on the news. Is this right? Has anyone got any updates?? |
They were banding the word"Steroids" in the AM news but I have not seen any 'proof' put out yet. Anyone heard any updates? |
Now 21 Dead...And Vets say 'Toxic Substance' likely killed the horses..
All the horses came from the same Venezuelan team- and that some started showing signs immediately as soon as they were unloaded from the plane....They say blood test results haven't been completed yet...
With all the drugging battle going on in about horse racing- if this was a guy with needle 'roiding" them up-- this is going to give the Humane Society folks a hay day.....
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Faster horses
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kola, we used to find Polo horses for players...until I watched a polo
game. Didn't want any part of that, thank you, so we quit the deal.
There isn't much horsemanship involved, they just tie the horses heads
down and jerk them around. I hated it.
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The TV is reporting that the supplement they had the Pharmacy make up is illegal in the US- so they gave them the formula to make it up for them.....
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Florida pharmacy says it wrongly prepped horse meds before match
(CNN) -- A veterinary pharmacy in Florida acknowledged Thursday that it incorrectly prepared medication used to treat 21 horses who all died around the time of an international polo match last weekend.
Veterinarian Scott Swerdlin talks with reporters Sunday about his Palm Beach Equine Clinic's response.
The deaths of the ponies, witnessed in full view by spectators Sunday in a dramatic scene where horses collapsed one after another, have jolted the prestigious polo tournament at the marquee International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington, Florida.
An internal investigation by Franck's Pharmacy in Ocala, Florida, "concluded that the strength of an ingredient in the medication was incorrect. We will cooperate fully with the authorities as they continue their investigations," the company said in a statement issued Thursday afternoon.
"We extend our most sincere condolences to the horses' owners, the Lechuza Polo team and the members of the United States Polo Association. We share their grief and sadness," the pharmacy's chief operations officer, Jennifer Beckett, said in the statement.
A memorial ceremony for the horses is scheduled for Thursday at the U.S. Open Polo Championship, where officials hope to resume play after matches were postponed by rain Wednesday. The memorial service will include a brief speech and a wreath-laying on the field.
On Wednesday, the captain of a polo team at the center of the mysterious deaths told an Argentine newspaper that he has "no doubts" vitamins administered to the animals by a laboratory are at fault. |
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