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**lmarieaa** · #1 04-23-09, 12:56 am

The absolutely disgusting things people do to get ahead of the competition. So upsetting, those poor horses! This made me cry, those poor babies did not deserve to die that way.
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Its sickening they are going to just resume the competition. They should have cancelled the whole thing in honor of the horses.

**Allyson** · #2 04-23-09, 01:07 am

I just saw this story on the local news a day or two ago. It's disgusting

**Amsley246** · #3 04-23-09, 06:57 am

I heard about that story the last few days. That's terrible. I wonder if it was sabbotage or if it was someone not doing their job. Either way, someone needs to keep a closer eye on the others, something like this shouldn't have happened. Simply horrible!

**blackarrow** · #4 04-23-09, 08:06 am

From what I've seen, you're pretty far ahead of yourself in saying that these horses were deliberately poisoned in some way. The vet in the Today report you posted said he thought it was very unlikely that they got some sort of tainted shot.

Horses can be very sensitive to things they ingest - it's also very possible they ate a poisonous plant in their pasture or something, completely accidentally. It's very sad that they died I think we ought to wait before deciding they were killed by the competition!

**Amsley246** · #5 04-23-09, 10:02 am

I just found this in another article, they were injected with what they think a tainted dose of Biodyl. All the horses that died were injected with it. They think someone in the labratory may have done it.

Vitamin Suspected in Polo Horse Deaths

**ShainaBee** · #6 04-23-09, 10:02 am

I agree with blackarrow.

I've had horses before - they are very sensitive to everything.

The littlest plants can cause a downfall. I do not think they were deliberately killed because of a competition by another team so they could get ahead. If you re read the article it said "as they were being unloaded" which meant they were coming from their home areas.

**blackarrow** · #7 04-23-09, 10:08 am

Wait a minute - if this turns out to be the problem, you're still implying that someone deliberately killed these horses, and I'm not seeing where you're getting evidence of that in these articles. It could just as easily be that someone made the formula incorrectly.

**Peggysu** · #8 04-23-09, 10:09 am

Drugging horses is not unheard of when it comes to showing them though and competing. I don't deal with horses or anything but I work with a lady who rescues and shows horses and she had one of her horses drugged at a show.

**blackarrow** · #9 04-23-09, 10:14 am

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Originally Posted by Peggysu

Drugging horses is not unheard of when it comes to showing them though and competing. I don't deal with horses or anything but I work with a lady who rescues and shows horses and she had one of her horses drugged at a show.

I didn't say it was unheard of - but it still doesn't suggest that someone in the laboratory was trying to kill horses.

**Peggysu** · #10 04-23-09, 10:27 am

Well if someone just wasn't doing their job then that will have to be addressed in the lab.

Do you think that if all these horses were drugged that they would let it leak out to the public? There are a lot of things that go on that we don't even know about. I'm sure we won't know the full truth unless it truely is a mistake in the lab.

**blackarrow** · #11 04-23-09, 10:33 am

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Originally Posted by Peggysu

Do you think that if all these horses were drugged that they would let it leak out to the public?

I don't get what you're saying. It's leaking out to the public that they allegedly took something - from their own handlers, not from their competitors - right now.

**Peggysu** · #12 04-23-09, 10:44 am

Ultimately what they got, according to the media, came from a lab that may have improperly set up the meds. All I'm saying is that we will probably never know if it was on purpose.

I have my own oppinions with the news media. I don't believe everything it reports. It tends to leave out facts sometimes.

**Amsley246** · #13 04-23-09, 11:05 am

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Originally Posted by blackarrow

Wait a minute - if this turns out to be the problem, you're still implying that someone deliberately killed these horses, and I'm not seeing where you're getting evidence of that in these articles. It could just as easily be that someone made the formula incorrectly.

I wasn't implying anything. I said that they think, not I think. It say that in the article. It could have been accidental, it could have been deliberately, nobody knows until futher investigation. Either way, it is a tragic story.

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''For us, the suspicions are that there was something bad in the laboratory.''

That was taken directly from my article I posted.

**Amsley246** · #14 04-23-09, 11:07 am

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Originally Posted by Peggysu

Ultimately what they got, according to the media, came from a lab that may have improperly set up the meds. All I'm saying is that we will probably never know if it was on purpose.

I have my own oppinions with the news media. I don't believe everything it reports. It tends to leave out facts sometimes.

Very true, it's hard to find a trustful media now days. What ever happened to that thing called Honesty?

**Peggysu** · #15 04-23-09, 11:20 am

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Originally Posted by Amsley246

Very true, it's hard to find a trustful media now days. What ever happened to that thing called Honesty?

Honesty doesn't exist in the media with certain subjects. I think if it were a purposeful event it would have tremendous effects toward its money making and public support.

Who knows what they are paid to say and not to say.

**blackarrow** · #16 04-23-09, 01:34 pm

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Originally Posted by Amsley246

I wasn't implying anything. I said that they think, not I think. It say that in the article. It could have been accidental, it could have been deliberately, nobody knows until futher investigation. Either way, it is a tragic story.

That was taken directly from my article I posted.

Something bad in the laboratory is neutral. Someone in the laboratory "did it" is not neutral.

The latest is the lab has taken responsibility and said that it was a compounding error.

**Amsley246** · #17 04-23-09, 02:46 pm

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Originally Posted by blackarrow

Something bad in the laboratory is neutral. Someone in the laboratory "did it" is not neutral.

The latest is the lab has taken responsibility and said that it was a compounding error.

I never said they did it, I said may have. Like I said, no one really knows what happened exactly. I'm not pointing fingers. Horses are dead, something went wrong, people are trying to figure it out. It's tragic.

**blackarrow** · #18 04-23-09, 02:51 pm

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Originally Posted by Amsley246

Like I said, no one really knows what happened exactly. I'm not pointing fingers. Horses are dead, something went wrong, people are trying to figure it out. It's tragic.

I don't imagine the laboratory would have admitted to something which is certainly (and deservedly) going to cause them very massive liability unless they know what happened.

Sad, and scary, to be sure.

**lmarieaa** · #19 04-23-09, 02:53 pm

If they find it was deliberate, they won't tell the public that it was. It will always be an "accident" no matter what they find out.

**blackarrow** · #20 04-23-09, 02:57 pm

No, that does not follow. It would be better for the company to pin it on some individual and say they were deranged than for the company to say it didn't have well trained or careful employees or good quality control procedures.

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