OT: Mystery at Fla. polo match: 21 horses die - Page 2

Last I heard they didn't know what caused this yet.

The what has to come before the why.

I've heard of PETA putting stuff in the water to kill showdogs. I'm wondering if this might be what happened with the horses. Sounds more logical than the 'Russian Mafia'!

Anything sounds more logical the the russian mafia....LOL

Time for the moderator to show up.

Jim

Hey,

That's a shame! My thoughts go out to the owners. Nothing more you can do, really.

agreed, time for the moderator.

people! please stay on track.

21 horses x $200,000 = 4.2 Million dollars.

Your ignorance is showing (again).  Not all the horses were even insured.

Anyway, poor things.  What a heartbreak.  We all know how tough it is to lose ONE, and to have been there when all this started happening, with one after another dropping.   Apparently there were a number of veterinarians right there when it happened and they all rushed in to do what they could, but nothing helped.

'Your ignorance is showing (again).  Not all the horses were even insured.'

Try again..Right from the article.  I dont make this up.    'Each Valued at $200,000 each'

Magnificent polo ponies, each valued at up to $200,000, stumbled from their trailers and crumpled one by one onto the green grass.

That is why the necropsy must be performed, to pay out the insurance claim, which will be filed. There were ulterior motives, money related, to these animal deaths.  This was not an accident. Rest assured.

You can do some geneology research on names as well, as in the case of the black widows, and grasp the bigger picture thereafter.

Peace and Shalom

"Try again..Right from the article.  I dont make this up.    'Each Valued at $200,000 each' "

LOL - "valued" at $200,000 each does not mean "insured" for $200,000 each.  I repeat.  Not all of the horses were insured.  Go look it up.  And surely you know that if it's found that the horses were poisoned to collect the insurance, the insurance companies won't pay.

Escobar said he's never seen anything like the scenario that unfolded Sunday night. He says the players and trainers do "everything possible" to keep the horses in optimum condition, saying "they are babied every single day, all day long."

The U.S. Polo Association, the sport's governing body, is opening their own investigation.

Celeste Kunz, chief examining veterinarian at the New York Racing Association and a 19-year veterinarian, said Monday that she suspected a tainted substance was injected into the horses.

"[It was] something that was administered for it to work in a short amount of time and have an animal succumb that quickly," Kunz said. "My thought is that something was injected, because it would have to affect the central nervous system."

Escobar, from his experience with the animals, agreed.

"When something like this happens, if there was disease or illness or virus, other horses would already be coming out," he said. "Anything that would come whether it's something like this or a small stomachache, we see it, because we are there with them all the time."

Anabolic steroids are not likely to have caused the deaths, either, Kunz said.

"It takes at least five days for [anabolic steroids] to really work, and the effects aren't real obvious at first," she said. "Most of the time, [anabolic steroids] are used to build up their muscularity."