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Old 06-22-2012, 10:29 AM
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Default Mitt Romney sold a drugged horse

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/an...eys-high-horse

Ann and Mitt Romney sold a dressage horse, Super Hit ($125,000). After sale, the horse was found to have four drugs in it's system as painkillers/sedatives.

The Romney's were sued. The case settled out of court.

The expert witness against the Romney's was an FEI vet.

The horse had a foot problem (coffin bone) and a contralateral compensatory lameness. The drugs found (they are spelled incorrectly in the Buzzfeed article, see the original lab report) were:

Butorphenol - sedative and mild analgesic, opiod
Xylazine - short-term sedation and analgesic, alpha-2 receptor agonist
Detomidine - primarily sedation and some analgesia, alpha-2 agonist, lasts longer than xylazine
Romifidine - used for standing sedation and mild analgesia.

When you combine Xylazine or detomidine or romifidine with butorphenol, you get nice pain control and sedation. With no ataxia (stumbling, tripping, falling over)

Some yahoo put all four in this horse to calm and mask the lamenesses.

Romney is scum.

I don't care if he didn't know about this, and the trainer had a vet do it, or more likely, chose to do it his self, without the Romney's knowledge (very common, unfortunately) - it's cheating, it's fraud, it's deception, it's theft by deception, and worse, it's dangerous for the horse, for the rider.

Money above horse welfare. Eff you, Mitt Romney. I hope your campaign is over now.
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