Health of Subzero, 1992 Winner of Melbourne Cup, Threatened After Customs Mix Up

--"Fairy Godmother" Flies in to Save Beloved Australian Steed from Untimely
Death--

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- With the Melbourne Cup,
Australia's most prestigious and coveted horse race only days away, Subzero,
the beloved winner of the 1992 Melbourne Cup, and "Subbie" to several
generations of Australian schoolchildren, has dodged a painful and unnecessary
death, thanks to the quick actions of a "fairy godmother" from the United
States, Nana Patricia McPeak.

McPeak, nicknamed "RicePatty" due to her pioneering efforts in the rice bran
industry, flew to Australia to help save the well-known horse when Australian
customs officials banned a rice-bran-based natural arthritis formula McPeak
invented from entering the country. The 20-year-old equine Cup winner suffers
from arthritis, and his veterinarians were successfully treating him with
McPeak's arthritis relief product.

"Subzero was deteriorating rapidly after we ran out of the Flex Plus formula
that we were giving him," said Graham Salisbury, Subzero's owner. Subzero's
vet, Tammy Howard DVM, concurred with Salisbury. "We were devastated when the
news came that, for some reason, customs would not allow the product to come
into the country. We knew that Subbie was in grave danger of going down fast.
His joints began to swell, and we could see that he was in severe pain. We
were desperate, and we tried all sorts of alternate therapies. Nothing worked
like the Flex Plus," she said.

McPeak learned about Subzero's plight and immediately contacted Salisbury in
Australia. According to Salisbury, she said, "Graham, I'm coming with an
updated version of the original formula, and we're going to save this horse."
A few days later, she arrived with enough of the natural human grade arthritis
formula to last for three months.

"She said she was coming," said Salisbury, "and I thought, no way, but two
days later, there she was. It brought my wife Anita and me to tears. We are
so grateful that someone cared enough about Subbie and was willing to go to
extreme measures to help save him. He's a hero and so is she."

About two days after Subzero began receiving RicePatty's Equine SuperFlex
formula, the horse recovered dramatically. The swelling subsided, and he was
able to run, buck and roll around on the ground. Salisbury said, "He's made a
full recovery. In fact, he's doing things I haven't seen him do in years.
It's very apparent that he's feeling good again, and he's going to be around
for a long time to come." He added, "There's no doubt in my mind that this
natural arthritis formula has made all the difference in the world for our
horse. RicePatty really saved his life. We are indebted to her for making
the effort."

McPeak says that the equine product that was being held in customs contained
the safest of all human-food-grade products- the very same rice bran that is
manufactured by U. S. company, NutraCea- and is in baby food consumed all over
Australia and New Zealand. Unfortunately, McPeak noted, the snafu could have
caused the death of the famed Subzero. "To avoid this kind of thing in the
future, I met with the necessary authorities, and I'm now working with them to
import both human and animal products into Australia, " she said.

About McPeak
Nana Patricia McPeak (RicePatty) is the founder and former CEO of NutraCea, a
company founded on McPeak's invention of a patented technology that stabilizes
rice bran. The bran is then naturally processed into value-added products and
is made available to the human and animal food ingredient industry, as well as
the nutritional supplement industry. McPeak is also the founder and current
CEO of NanaCea, which markets a wide range of natural human and animal
nutritional supplements based on the stabilized rice bran value-added products
manufactured by NutraCea. RicePatty Equine SuperFlex is a natural blend of
stabilized rice bran derivative, glucosamine, a special form of yucca, MSM,
gamma oryzanol derived from rice bran and other natural ingredients. McPeak
has received two patents on the formulation for reducing the pain and
inflammation associated with arthritis, based on a 50-horse clinical study.
She owns 33 thoroughbred race horses in Phoenix, Arizona.

About Subzero
Subzero (Subbie) is a 16-hand, grey Thoroughbred gelding, who was born in
1989. His sire was Kala Dancer, and his dam was Wiley Trade. Subzero began
racing as a three year old, and he won a number of major races during his
career. Besides winning The Melbourne Cup in 1992, Subzero also won the
Adelaide Cup and South Australian Derby. In lifetime earnings, Subzero won
nearly two million dollars in prize money. He had 42 starts for 4 wins, 5
seconds and 5 thirds. His last race was the Brisbane Cup on June 13, 1994.
Subbie then became a Clerk of the Course horse for 15 years, retiring in June
2008. He now continues as an Ambassador for Racing Victoria, visiting about
50 primary and secondary schools each year, giving students the unique
opportunity of meeting a Melbourne Cup winner. Subzero is a popular horse
among kids and even has his own product line, which includes lunch bags, hats,
t-shirts, pencils and drink bottles. Subbie and his owner, Graham Salisbury,
also help to raise funds for a number of different charities each year.

For more info on NanaCea or RicePatty Equine SuperFlex go to www.nanacea.com
or call 1-888-933-1000.

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Adelman PR
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Contact in Australia:
Graham Salisbury

SOURCE NanaCea

Margie Adelman of Adelman PR, +1-916-220-3500, madelman@adelmanpr.com, or
Contact in Australia, Graham Salisbury