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Rush Additional Blood . Samples to Laboratories Await Results Before Lifting Quarantine at Ascot Park Track COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 8. — As requested, additional samples of blood taken from the seven horses affected with a mysterious disease at Ascot Park are being rushed to the diagnostic laboratories of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Washington D. C, Dr. Donald Hay, chief of the state division of animal industry, announced today. Dr. Hay is awaiting the results of the analysis of the blood samples before lifting a quarantine he has placed on all horses racing at Ascot. A number of horsemen who had. planned to ship to other points are co-operating fully, Dr. Hay said, by changing their schedules and are remaining on the Ascot Park scene until the quarantine is lifted. Dr. Hay said authorities have learned the identity of the horse that "carried" the disease to the Akron track but he declined to reveal the name to the press. J The head of the state division of animal industry announced that no new cases have been uncovered in the past week. All told, nine horses at Ascot were hit but two of them — Gold Necklace and Care Battle-were humanely destroyed. The other seven victims have been recovering rapidly, according to word from Ascot.
