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Originally Posted by Fager Fan
You mean this one? Where they speculated it was because they used rat poison at GG, Del Mar, and Santa Anita?
http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com...hared-archive/
The only problem with that speculation of course is that the horses were all at Hollywood Park.
The "investigation" of Baffert was nothing more than a dog and pony show. |
Hollywood Park was closed by the time this article was written. The article focused on a several sudden death cases that occurred at different California racetracks beyond the Baffert cluster, so the relevant information about rodenticide use was from those tracks that were still operating.
In the Baffert investigation, one horse was found to have rodenticide in its system while 2 or 3 of the remaining 6 were noted to have bled internally. Testing for rodenticides as part of a necropsy was not routine at the time, but because of the unusual finding in the Baffert investigation, it was implemented as part of the testing protocols. The TDN article was a summary of the initial results investigating an association between rodenticides and internal bleeding.
