21 polo horses die in South Florida

I saw that on the news, ros. Tragic!

WELLINGTON, Fla. " The sudden death of 21 polo horses at a championship event in Florida may have been caused by a toxin in the animals' feed, vitamins or supplements, veterinarians said Monday.

sheesh, how does something like this happen? polo horses are such beautiful animals.

I really hate to think of anyone wanting to harm such powerful, wonderful creatures.

I had only heard the headline in passing on CNN and my first thought was they must have all died of shock from lightning since there were tornado warnings and lightning storms in that area at the same time frame.

When I learned it was not a mass, sudden death, but more of a lingering one with several dropping at different times, I wondered if lightning could still be an answer. Maybe the lightning strike wasn't enough to cause immediate death, but was enough to do lethal harm to their nervous systems that eventually killed them.

I was just listening to NPR about this news.

Seems rumors are starting to fly.

Terrible thing. Animals are innocents.

When I first saw the headline I thought it would be a barn fire or something like that. I was surprised when I saw the details.

I don't think lightning can do what happened.

The veterenarian called in was certain that , due to the pattern, the deaths were caused by intoxication by some chemical. His guess, before the autopsy and toxicology results , was that this was caused by an injection with some form of off spec shot. He was initially going through any medication data.

They said that the tox screening would take several days due to the number of animals involved.

My neighbor has a couple of ponies that he and his wife use for polo, theirs are really hyper animals and hes always keeping them separate from other horses that he rescues.

So far it's looking like tainted vitamin injections which they give them right before the matches.

"Vitamin" must be the latest euphemism for the "make my horsey faster/better/stronger" chemical.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKN23347924

They're closing in on it...

Barbeque for all of the houses lost in the flooding and the tornados in the south? Who made this mess? Someone who believes in vivisection just as much as the next phony? Or some little freckled face hormonal freak. I like the freckled face hormonal freaks. The working class is being all shipped over seas as says.

What in Hell are you talking about?

Clearly from his other post in this it seems that his word processor is a food processor - Perhaps a Veg-O-Matic.