Must READ Article from By Carlos E. Medina: Ky. pharmacy sued; horses got sick or died--Suit Claims It was William Bernard did not order tests on other samples of the lot after the Kentucky horses died in April and did not warn clients of the previous incident.

The owners of seven of the eight thoroughbred racehorses that got sick or died in May after being given a compounded preparation to treat or prevent a protozoal infection at an Ocala training center have sued the Kentucky pharmacy that mixed the drug.

JMJ Racing Stables LLC, which owned four of the horses, including one of the two that died; Galen Ho LLC, which owned two of the horses; and Robert Harvey and Al Wortzman filed suits against Lexington-based Wycliffe Pharmaceutical Inc. in U.S. District Court in Ocala.

They accuse the company of negligence and gross negligence for not only allegedly mixing the wrong dosage of medication, but also allegedly trying to “conceal” the mix-up after two other horses died in an earlier case in Kentucky when they were given a similar preparation, according to the three lawsuits.

On May 5, the eight horses were given toltrazuril/pyrimethamine, which is used to treat or prevent equine protozoal myeloencephalitis or EPM. EPM affects the central nervous system in horses. It is transmitted through opossum waste, which horses ingest while foraging or eating tainted feed.

 

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