Tragedy in the polo world

Keep us posted if you get any updates. :( :sad

So far the biggest rumor is that the horses all received steroid injections and that the drug may have been mixed wrong or contaminated with a cleaning solution.

that is so terrible :(

i think they said they might know today what caused this...anyone heard yet?

Not yet - but my gut instinct when I first heard was poisoning (intentional or otherwise). Too many horses at one time (within minutes for some) with vets on scene helping? Had to be something toxic. :(( :((

That gives me goosebumps. :o How tragic!
I am leaning towards something gone wrong. (in what they were fed/were given) What on earth can kill so fast? :oops:

YIKES! How terrible. :sad If it was intentional, hopefully justice will be served...

There are still no answers as to the cause that I have heard. It had to have been some form of toxin, whether injected or ingested as there isn't an illness that would kill that many horses that quickly.

This is FHOTD's topic today too.

No more news? Since this morning?

:sad
NPR story today said it would be later this week that the toxology reports are in.

Toxocology takes a lot of time. Unlike what they show on TV, you can't just run a "tox screen." There are thousands of different known toxins and each one has to be run separately, though only so many toxins would produce those symptoms (ataxia, fever, acute death).

Nothing really useful has come up except for more and more rumors. The newest info is that the cause of death was related to acute heart problems. The officials in charge of the investigation are being completely tight-lipped, which is expected in this sort of situation. The toxocologist at my university said that so far she and her colleagues have been brain-storming, but none of them are involved in the investigation. There is no toxocologist in Florida so that samples from the necropsies will most likely be sent to Univ of Fl for analysis, which might take weeks. She also said that there are many possible toxins that could have this sort of effect including things as simple as someone accidentally confusing cattle feed with horse feed.

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