Twin Foals Are Not Always A 'Disaster'
Twin Foals Are Not Always A 'Disaster' November 20, 2011 South African ‘Horse of the Year’ and leading sire DYNASTY, and historic U.S. ‘Horse of the Year’ SPECTACULAR BID can attest to that. I grew up knowing that twin foals weren’t always a total disaster. How, as a child, could I possibly know that? My grandfather bred the odd draft horse on his farm in Wiltshire in England, and, in 1918, the same year that my mother was born, one of his mares dropped twins; twins of equal size, and both extremely healthy. Such was the occasion, that, when they were a few weeks old, the village photographer was commissioned to come and take a photograph. The ‘carter’ (Jones) was instructed to hold the mare in the middle of the field whilst the photographer set up his tripod, got the mare in focus, and was instructed by my grandfather – who stood to the front of the mare with a flag – that he was to only take the photograph ...
