Should an Animal Abuser Be President?
joseph digristina
2012/06/26 03:08:42
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Seems Mittens doesn't just have a thing for mistreating dogs....horses included.
First there was Seamus, the Romney family Irish Setter whom they admit
to strapping to the roof of their car (at least once) for a 12-hour
drive to Canada as if he was luggage. They left poor Seamus up on the
roof even after he became ill and soiled himself and the car. Mitt, in
what was described by his campaign as "emotion free crisis management"
merely hosed Seamus down and continued on the trip for hours more.
Now there is a horse named Super Hit.
In 2008, the Romneys sold a horse named Super Hit for $125,000. The
horse was subsequently found to be lame and unable to perform dressage.
Dr. Steven Soule, veterinarian for the U.S. Equestrian Team, was
consulted. He found that Super Hit, at
the time he was sold, had been drugged with a staggering amount of
painkillers - more than he had ever seen given to a horse in 38-years of
practice.
Super Hit's new owners sued Ann Romney, her trainers
and her vet. The case was settled out of court last September. The
Romney campaign called the case "frivolous," but refused to allow the LA
Times to interview the Romneys, their trainers, or their vet. The LA
Times also reports that Romney's lawyers have sought to keep the case
out of the public eye by trying to get the attorney of Super Hit's new
owners to sign a confidentiality agreement.
The Romneys
continue their relationship with the same trainers under whom Super Hit
was given a staggering amount of painkillers so that he could be forced
to continue performing.
Sources:
Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/ann-romneys-high-horse
LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/22/nation/la-na-ann-romn...
Friday, June 22, 2012
Should an Animal Abuser be President? Neigh.
First there was Seamus, the Romney family Irish Setter whom they admit
to strapping to the roof of their car (at least once) for a 12-hour
drive to Canada as if he was luggage. They left poor Seamus up on the
roof even after he became ill and soiled himself and the car. Mitt, in
what was described by his campaign as "emotion free crisis management"
merely hosed Seamus down and continued on the trip for hours more.
Now there is a horse named Super Hit.
In 2008, the Romneys sold a horse named Super Hit for $125,000. The
horse was subsequently found to be lame and unable to perform dressage.
Dr. Steven Soule, veterinarian for the U.S. Equestrian Team, was
consulted. He found that Super Hit, at
the time he was sold, had been drugged with a staggering amount of
painkillers - more than he had ever seen given to a horse in 38-years of
practice.
Super Hit's new owners sued Ann Romney, her trainers
and her vet. The case was settled out of court last September. The
Romney campaign called the case "frivolous," but refused to allow the LA
Times to interview the Romneys, their trainers, or their vet. The LA
Times also reports that Romney's lawyers have sought to keep the case
out of the public eye by trying to get the attorney of Super Hit's new
owners to sign a confidentiality agreement.
The Romneys
continue their relationship with the same trainers under whom Super Hit
was given a staggering amount of painkillers so that he could be forced
to continue performing.
Sources:
Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/ann-romneys-high-horse
LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/22/nation/la-na-ann-romn...
The buyer had been riding the horse for awhile prior to the sale, showing this horse was consistently being drugged to appear sound. The drugs used were pretty serious heavy duty stuff, including narcotics. The buyer had blood run on the horse, and a full toxicology report... standard SOP when purchasing a very pricey horse and these drugs were found when the report was finalized.
The Romneys tried to pull a fast one here. One could blame the horses trainer for this... but excepting that the Romneys are still using same trainer w/ their horses shows either intent to drug the horse on their part or at the very least, not caring what is done to them.
Here is what was found in her system,...
"Super Hit had three sedative pain killers and one narcotic pain killer in her system when the horse was examined to check her condition pre-sale. The drugs were Butorphanol, Delomidine, Romifidine, and Xylatine."
And they claim this was for sedation for radiographs? Oh what a crock of crap! Butorphenol? THAT is a major heavy duty narcotic pain killer.
Delomidine.. has to mean dormosedan... that is one hell of a sedative... Romifidine also a sedative... xylazine... has to be a misspelling from article I copied from... is another major sedative, muscle relaxer, etc...
Question is... why on earth would this horse have all of this in her system? Why would any vet make this kind of a potentially lethal cocktail for this horse? Possibly this mare was so used to being drugged... she just plain had a serious resistance built up in her system? Or had to be drugged lightly to be ridden? I can not imagine a world class dressage horse being so wild and ill tempered to need to be sedated within an inch of her life for radiographs... and still does not explain the dormosedan... the narcotic pain killer.. there is no surprise here that this woman filed a lawsuit.
The horse had a history of serious lameness issues.... all documented from vet records, MRI, radiographs, invasive treatments, over many years with the Romneys as the owners.. etc etc. Plus Romney knew of these issues, because the horse had an exclusion on his insurance papers for them. Add in, the vet used for the pre purchase exam to the buyer, had been the trainers vet for 20 years... working on this same horse. Huge conflict of interest and by law he was required to inform the buyer of this, and he did not. He also lied about the findings on the radiographs, and noted to the trainer... not the buyer as he was legally obligated to do, that the horse was heavily drugged prior to his exam beginning. And in addittion to the 4 drugs found in the horses system, there were 2 more found in a different test, specific for lameness issues. (Legend and Adequan given prior to the exam...)
Bottom line is...Romney knowingly owned a horse for years who had serious lameness issues. They were covered up w/ drugs, likely during competition too, just lucky for them were never caught. (drug tests are not done on every horse, just random in most shows,, Vet said the horses issues so serious, he could not have competed at that level w/out seriou...
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The horse had a history of serious lameness issues.... all documented from vet records, MRI, radiographs, invasive treatments, over many years with the Romneys as the owners.. etc etc. Plus Romney knew of these issues, because the horse had an exclusion on his insurance papers for them. Add in, the vet used for the pre purchase exam to the buyer, had been the trainers vet for 20 years... working on this same horse. Huge conflict of interest and by law he was required to inform the buyer of this, and he did not. He also lied about the findings on the radiographs, and noted to the trainer... not the buyer as he was legally obligated to do, that the horse was heavily drugged prior to his exam beginning. And in addittion to the 4 drugs found in the horses system, there were 2 more found in a different test, specific for lameness issues. (Legend and Adequan given prior to the exam...)
Bottom line is...Romney knowingly owned a horse for years who had serious lameness issues. They were covered up w/ drugs, likely during competition too, just lucky for them were never caught. (drug tests are not done on every horse, just random in most shows,, Vet said the horses issues so serious, he could not have competed at that level w/out serious lameness... thus had to have been drugged.
Then Romney wanted to unload the horse for $125K, so the horse was drugged for the vet check, made sure their own vet did it, and that the buyer was not informed of any of this. Only way she found out, was having all the test results and radiographs, etc.. sent to her own vet, who happened to be one of the leading vets in the country for pre purchase exams and on the Olympic team horses. So they were caught.
FRAUD>... 100%, and the Romneys, their trainers and their vet should have been sued. Just this woman could not fight anymore. he who has the most money wins... period. And I am sure the Romneys had more money than the buyer. Buyer still owns the horse. Another interesting note, is that his dressage test scores were very very high at the highest levels of competition under the Romneys, yet immediately after sale to new owner, he competed at a lower level and his scores were nearly 10 points lower. According the the USDF, he has not been shown since.
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I didn't think it seemed that difficult.