Lechuza Caracas is a Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

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Polo

Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...

 club owned by the Venezuelan Victor Vargas, owner of Banco Occidental de Descuento

Banco Occidental de Descuento

Banco Occidental de Descuento is a Venezuelan bank. With around 6.6% of the Venezuelan market, it was Venezuela's fifth-largest bank in 2009...

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Lechuza reached the final of the 2009 CV Whitney Cup

2009 CV Whitney Cup

The 2009 CV Whitney Cup was played at Florida's International Polo Club, as a World Polo Tour Cup event, Febryary 38th-March 9, 2009.-Participating teams:- First Round:Date Time Teams...

. Lechuza also "reached the U.S. Open final in 2003, according to the North American Polo League Web site. The team twice won C.V. Whitney Cup, competed in the finals of the 2002 Gold Cup, and in 2007, finished runner-up in the U.S. Gold Cup and won the English Gold Cup."

In April 2009 21 Lechuza ponies died of a selenium

Selenium

Selenium is a chemical element with atomic number 34, chemical symbol Se, and an atomic mass of 78.96. It is a nonmetal, whose properties are intermediate between those of adjacent chalcogen elements sulfur and tellurium...

 overdose when a mineral supplement similar to Biodyl

Biodyl

Biodyl is a trademark of Merial for a dietary supplement used in animals. It is manufactured in two formulations: a powder for use in an individual animal's drinking water, and an injectable solution...

was wrongly mixed by a Florida pharmacy.