WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) — Investigators have opened a criminal probe into whether someone poisoned 21 polo horses that died during preparations for a match in the sport’s top championship in Florida, officials said Tuesday.
The horses from a Venezuelan-owned team began collapsing Sunday as they were unloaded from trailers at the International Polo Club Palm Beach, with some dying at the scene and others hours later at stables or clinics. State investigators believe the horses died from an adverse drug reaction, toxins in their food or supplements, or a combination of the two.
While state veterinarians run tests to determine what caused the deaths, law enforcement officers are looking into whether criminal negligence, or perhaps something more sinister, could have been involved, said a spokesman for the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
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