Polo Captain: Tainted vitamin killed 21 ponies

[babylonsister]

Polo Captain: Tainted vitamin killed 21 ponies

BY ANDREW MARRA AND BILL DiPAOLO
Palm Beach Post


The 21 polo ponies that died in Wellington Sunday were all injected before the game with a vitamin supplement called Biodyl -- and team members believe a tainted dose caused their deaths, the team's captain said.

Juan Martin Nero, captain of the Lechuza Caracas polo team, told the La Nacion newspaper in Buenos Aires that all of the horses had received Biodyl injections before the game.

''We don't have any doubts about the origin of the problem,'' Nero said. ``There were five horses that weren't given the vitamin and they are the only ones that are fine.''

Biodyl is a French-made supplement that contains Vitamin B, selenium and chromium, La Nacion reported.

Nero said that Biodyl ``is what the horses are always given.''

''For us, the suspicions are that there was something bad in the laboratory,'' Nero said. ``They're common vitamins that aren't given to improve performance but rather to help them recover from exhaustion.''

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[aquart]

1. French made with, I dunno, Chinese ingredients?

Or am I being overly suspicious?

[Thothmes]

3. The Chinese are not the only people on the planet

to screw something up.

[tbyg52]

2. Thank you for the information. So sad, but glad to know what happened. nt

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. biodyl - pronounced "bio die all"

[kestrel91316]

5. BSe injections. I gave a few of those, mostly to sheep and goats but

also some to horses when I did large animals. But that was 25 years ago so don't ask me any details, lol.

We gave it to the horses to prevent "Monday morning sickness", IIRC.