Sight,
no,no, no....if good ol bobby baffert was truly \"troubled\" (which you took a shot at me for using that word but that\'s the words he used that was quoted in a bloodhorse/espn/etc articles mentioning his PR firm\'s release), then he would release the medication/vet records for the horses that died.....this has nohing to do with claiming races/issues....these horses are dead.
But he won\'t, see below Bob\'s words that don\'t match up with the inaction of not providing Uzal the info he needs to truly figure it out....hmmmmm.
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\"The safety of my horses has been and always will be the most important thing to me,\" Baffert said. \"The mysterious deaths are personally troubling and of great sadness to me, my family and the owners of the horses. My heart goes out to the horses\' owners.\"
\"I am working with everyone, including the California Horse Racing Board, my veterinarians and staff at the tracks, to find causes for the unexplained deaths,\" the trainer said. \"California Horse Racing Board\'s Bo Derek and the state\'s equine medical director, Dr. Rick Arthur, have made it clear that nothing I have done has caused any horse I have trained to suffer equine sudden death syndrome. My professional focus will continue to be to provide the best care for my horses, with constant concern for their well-being.\"
\"I hope that research by CHRB and its pathologists will discover information helpful to understanding the reasons that I, and many of my colleagues, have had horses suffer this unfortunate fate,\" Baffert said.
But Dr. Uzal doesn\'t make it sound like the Hall of Fame trainer is working with everyone does he???
“We have not been able to find the cause,” Dr. Francisco Uzal of the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System said at a meeting of the board’s medication committee. “We have done extensive toxicological studies. We have done, of course, all sort of other things — pathology and histology. We don’t know what’s going on.”
Uzal acknowledged that researchers had been stymied in their search for answers to the sudden deaths because of the lack of information from trainers and their veterinarians.
“The information of medication that we get is still sketchy,” Uzal said at the medication meeting. “But if we can have a summary of medication, that would help a lot.”
