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At the same time polo fans gathered to mourn 21 prized horses that died before a championship match, they learned that a wrongly mixed supplement was likely to blame for their deaths.
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This April 20, 2009 photo shows flowers at a makeshift memorial outside of Lechuza Caracas Inc., in Wellington, Fla. The sudden death of 21 polo horses in Florida may have been caused by a toxin that has yet to be identified by tests and could have been..
