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A RAPPAHANNOCK County mare has come to the rescue of an “orphan” foal at Rockburn *o*N§table, near Marshall. The mare immediately adopted the young colt, and now seems to favor him over her own filly.
The young “orphan” was born May 12 and the 22-year-old mare, How High, seemed to have an easy birth, according to Shelley Warren, manager of Rockburn Stables. But when the rounds were made at midnight, the mare was found dead. She had hemorrhaged, but there were no signs of struggle in the stall, Mrs. Warren said. How High had belonged to John D. Archbold of Upperville for nearly 15 years. The sire of the young foal, also owned by Archbold, is Quadravan, a son of Quadrangle.
When How High died, her foal was only 12 hours old. Mrs. Warren was worried that he wouldn’t live, since it’s rare that a mare will accept a strange foal. “We tried a mare of Eggie Mills’s, one that had just lost a foal of her own. They’re supposed to be more likely to accept another foal. But she was hateful. She kicked at him, and wouldn’t accept him,” Shelley Warren said. “For three days we fed the orphan by putting a twitch on that Mills’s mare or some of our own mares here. But that wasn’t working. It was awful. Then Bobby Clark, the farrier, told us about this mare in Rappahannock with a marvelous disposition. She had a foal about
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