| Calzone Lord |
04-10-2013 09:13 PM |
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Originally Posted by Sightseek
(Post 923077)
Would the rat poison also be known as warfarin/coumadin?
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It says "diphacinone" over at the Paulick Report. Only the 6th one of Bafferts that died suddenly had it.
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The first Baffert horse to die suddenly in the 2011-12 fiscal year as reported by the CHRB was a 2-year-old male who collapsed while galloping at Hollywood Park on the morning of Nov. 4, 2011. His death was attributed to “likely failure of the cardiac conduction system,” according to a necropsy report from the California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory System. A second came three weeks later when Irrefutable, a 5-year-old horse, collapsed after finishing second in a six-furlong race at Hollywood Park. Heart failure and/or exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage were listed as likely cause of death. A third sudden death occurred Jan. 6, 2012, again at Hollywood Park, when Uncle Sam, a 4-year-old son of Tapit, collapsed near the three-eighth pole during a morning workout. Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis was listed as a possible cause of death, but the report called it a “puzzling” case.
Kaleem Shah owned all three of the aforementioned Baffert-trained horses.
When Mike Pegram’s 4-year-old colt CJ Russell died from apparent heart failure after the finish of a Hollywood Park race June 15, 2012, the necropsy report noted “fourth horse to collapse/die for this trainer in less than one year.”
A fifth death occurred Aug. 20, 2012, when a 2-year-old male at Hollywood Park died from heart failure while training.
A sixth death occurred on Dec. 21, 2012, when a 3-year-old gelding galloping in the morning at Hollywood Park went down, succumbing to what the necropsy report said was a “massive abdominal/thoracic cavity hemorrhage.” Toxicology tests discovered trace amounts of diphacinone, an agent in rodenticide, or rat poison. The report on the death called this an “important finding” but did not elaborate.
The most recent Baffert sudden death, the seventh since November 2011, happened March 14, 2013, at Hollywood Park, again during hours, when a 5-year-old mare collapsed and died from what the report described as severe pulmonary edema.
Baffert did not respond to voice or text messages sent to his cell phone Wednesday afternoon.
Sudden deaths of horses are extremely rare. Several trainers with more than 30 years of experience interviewed by the Paulick Report spoke warily of the situation. None of trainers lost more than three horses to sudden death during their entire careers, they said.
During the Medication and Track Safety Committee meeting Wednesday, it was revealed that trace levels of rat poison were discovered in toxicology tests of two of the horses who died suddenly, according to Mike Marten, an information officer with the CHRB. Marten said the CHRB interviewed pest-control companies that provided services to the Southern California tracks and that the type of rodenticide used by those companies did not match what was found in the toxicology tests. He also said Dr. Francico Uzal of the University of California-Davis and the CHRB’s medical director, veterinarian Rick Arthur, told the committee that the rat poison could not be confirmed as the cause of death.
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