Apparently, several horses arriving from Venezuela dropped dead at the US Open in Florida Sunday.
Here are some links to the story...
NBC Sports Reports as 14 horses dying.
Google News This story claims it was 21.
There are many conflicting reports on the actual numbers of horses affected. They seem to suspect some sort of poison. Perhaps tainted drugs or feed, vets hope the necropsy reports will provide answers.
There are very few things that could cause a mass basically simultaneous die-off like this. Hopefully it has something to do with feed or drugs and is not an outbreak of infectious disease and not more widespread.
Fugs says the death toll is up to 23 now.
ReplyDeleteIt's so sad. If it turns out to be steroids, I hope they all get banned for life and maybe polo will clean up its act.