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Making a New Mom for a Rejected Filly

Making a New Mom for a Rejected Filly

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Scot Gillies is research editor for digital media at Blood-Horse Publications, and previously served as interim photo and newsletter editor for The Horse. He owns and breeds a couple of Thoroughbred broodmares, and rides an off-the-track gelding named Dumbledore.

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Happy Birthday, Jo!

It's been almost two years since I started watching my Thoroughbred broodmare, Exotic Blue, for signs of imminent foaling. A lot has happened since that cold February morning, when she gave birth to a little bay filly with a white star and one white sock in what first appeared to be a normal delivery. Jo's Magic officially turned 2 today (as did all North American-born Thoroughbreds, by the...