14 horses die at S. Fla. polo tournament

I can't believe how many of you think that 21 horses dying is funny. Wow.

 

Take a guess at how many cows died today and yet no one cares.

 

Thank you!

 

OK, only the longtimers on this board will get this, but I was watching the overnight ABC news when I got home at around 4:30 a.m. And they kept saying "poloponies" like all run together and one word.

And I laughed while getting the shivers, all at once.

 

Were any of these horses in The Client?

 

Eric Karabell is providing updates every half hour on ESPNnews.

 

Dear gawd ... Another person who thinks we give a shit about his fantasy polo team.

 

I feel your pain ashy . One year I was in a fantasy water polo league and all my horse drowned.

 

Thanks for making me lose my appetite. ...

 

It's really sad that these horses died. But most horses that are bred for competitive purposes are put down anyway. Like Barbaro. America loved that horse and for what? WAAAAH WAAAAAH.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_re_us/us_dead_polo_horses_26<blockquote>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Unable to legally bring a supplement into the U.S. to make their horses more resilient, a Venezuelan polo team used another way to get ready for a champion match: Have a pharmacy mix up the concoction.

What happened next, though, was disastrous. The chemicals were mixed wrong, and 21 horses given the brew died in rapid succession, some collapsing just before taking the field in a championship polo match. The others fell soon after, one by one, shocking a well-heeled crowd gathered to watch the U.S. Open at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington.

The Lechuza polo team had hoped to get a compound similar to a name-brand supplement used safely around the world to help horses with exhaustion but hasn't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Veterinarians commonly turn to compounding pharmacies for medications that can't be found on shelves, but the dispensaries can only recreate unapproved drugs in limited circumstances.

A Florida pharmacy that mixed the medication said Thursday that an internal review found "the strength of an ingredient in the medication was incorrect." Jennifer Beckett, chief operating officer for Franck's Pharmacy in Ocala, Fla., would not say whether the incorrect amount was specified in the order that came from a Florida veterinarian.</blockquote>