Suit Filed Over Death of Thoroughbred Racehorses

A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the owners of millionaire sprinter Saratoga County, stakes winner Egg Head, and two other horses against a pharmacy that allegedly supplied a compounded drug treatment that led to the deaths of three of the

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A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the owners of millionaire sprinter Saratoga County, stakes winner Egg Head, and two other horses against a pharmacy that allegedly supplied a compounded drug treatment that led to the deaths of three of the horses and severe injury to the fourth.


In a civil action filed Sept. 29 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York in Albany, plaintiffs are claiming negligence, breach of warranty, and strict products liability against the New Jersey-based Wedgewood Village Pharmacy involving a compounded antibiotic product they claim necessitated the euthanasia of the three horses.


According to the suit, Saratoga County, Cathy’s Choice, and Yankee Penny were stabled in the Saratoga barn of trainer George Weaver and contracted a laryngeal infection known as Arytenoiditis. The suit claims Dr. James C. Prendergast treated each horse with Wedgewood’s Chloramphenicol Palmitate Product June 8 and 9, and the condition of the horses worsened immediately.


According to the filing, the three horses suffered from loss of appetite, intestinal distention, depression, elevated heart rate, and colic. Cathy’s Choice was euthanized June 14 and Saratoga County July 29. Yankee Penny survived, but according to the suit “sustained serious and severe physical injury and damage

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