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Government Blood Analysis on Seven Stricken Ascot Park Runners Delayed DelayedCOLUMBUS COLUMBUS Ohio May 1 Result of blood samples taken from seven race horses stricken with a mysterious disease at Ascot Park are being awaited here by Dr Donald Hay chief of the state division of animal in ¬ dustry dustryEarliest Earliest possible time results will be available from the diagnostic laboratories of the U S Department of Agriculture in Washington D C is Wednesday Dr Bay said He added the test may require as long as 12 days or two weeks weeksAll All told nine horses were stricken by the mysterious stiffness in the legs but two Gold Necklace and Tear battle were humanely destroyed destroyedMeanwhile Meanwhile Dr Hay has clamped a hold order on all horses at Ascot Park until the nature of the disease is determined as a precaution against the spread of the malady should it be infectious infectiousDr Dr Hay said Rhode Island authorities have been no ¬ tified a threehorse stablehad shipped from Ascot to Lincoln Downs between the time the disease was first observed April 14 and the time the quarantine went into effect
