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Making a New Mom for a Rejected Filly

Making a New Mom for a Rejected Filly

About Scot

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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Introduction

This is a test. As you'll find out, it's a test in more ways than one. For the next few weeks, I would like to share a little bit of my life with you. It's a story that you won't find in a veterinary text, but I think it might help save a few foals' lives. In Spring 2007, the excitement and joy of a newly-arrived foal turned into the heartbreak and struggle of watching the helpless...