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Date of Death: 16th April 04 Sex: ? Colour: BLACK |
We have had an
eventful foaling season so far, starting with the twins and last night at
10.15pm HP Sundance gave us a stunning bay colt by Holme Grove Prokofiev and
then at 01.15am HP Velvet started to foal. However we had a bad presentation
with two front legs but no head! We called the vet and she confirmed that we
had the same presentation that we had with her 3 years ago when she needed a
caesarean to deliver a dead foal. We travelled her 40 minutes in the lorry
to the Equine hospital and their specialists confirmed that the foal was
already dead (which is probably why it had not presented correctly) and
tried in vain to get the foal out. After a little while we had to make the
decision as to whether to go for surgery again to save the mare or to put
her down. At 13 and a second Caesar we all agreed it would be kinder to put
her to sleep. This is one of the worse nightmares of breeding.
Velvet has always been one of my favourite mares and it
was hard to say goodbye.
We must however still remind ourselves how lucky we have been over the years and that the fun we have from our Trakehners far out-ways these moments of upset.
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Sire: black |
Beg xx (bay) |
Gelikon xx | |||||||||
| Baschma xx | |||||||||||
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Pillar III (black) |
Goldino (black) | ||||||||||
| Primadonna II | |||||||||||
Dam: Holme Park Velvet bay |
Holme Grove Solomon (chestnut ) |
Fernando (chestnut) | |||||||||
| Holme Grove Schlobitten (bay) | |||||||||||
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Holme Park
Vabanque (bay) |
Consul (bay) | ||||||||||
| SPS Veleibchen (bay) | |||||||||||
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