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Two Week Wait
For Results
05/12/08 MRC/AP
It will be at
least two more weeks before additional information is
known about what caused the filly Eight Belles to break
down in the Kentucky Derby.
A lab at the
University of Kentucky has begun to examine the body of
the horse that was euthanized following her runner-up
finish in the Derby. But the filly's owner, Rick Porter,
says researchers have only told him that both of the front
ankles were broken.
Porter says
blood and tissue tests have been submitted for further
examination. It will take at least two weeks to get back
full results of the necropsy - or animal autopsy. Trainer
Larry Jones says those tests will prove the filly was not
on steroids.
Eight Belles
was euthanized on the track at Churchill Downs after
galloping about a quarter-mile past the finish line.
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