In 1997, a creature said to resemble a "cat-like beast" savaged a foal in Felingwm, Carmarthen.
When a horse gives birth, its foal gets up and starts walking within 30 minutes or so.
We've seen mares in the middle of giving birth and both the foal and the mare have died.
They will be followed later in the week by another set of joint military exercises called Foal Eagle.
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Immediately following the birth, mare and foal were reported to be doing fine.
Sticky GI(ph) is a foal by Lost Soldier and out of Super Glued.
Recent incidents include an attack that killed a mare and its unborn foal.
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He heads to a farm, where he arrives in time to assist with the birth of a wobbly Clydesdale foal.
So it should have been no surprise that it was Zenyatta herself who broke the news of her first foal.
Every individual horse adds up: fees to register a foal, and fees to enter the individual in AQHA-sanctioned shows thru its lifetime, etc.
It was announced last week that she would be bred for the first time to Tapit, to whom Zenyatta is currently in foal.
He expects to see the New York foal crop increase over the next several years, bucking the trend of a lowered foal crop nationwide.
Rachel Alexandra foaled a filly early Tuesday morning, reported by the farm to have weighed 140 pounds, the biggest foal of the year so far at Stonestreet.
He's already mated with Zenyatta, the 2010 Horse of the Year, whose foal, due in late March, may steal some magazine pages from Kate and William's baby.
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Pope chose Tapit to sire the filly's first foal.
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Last year, following the birth of her first foal, a colt, Rachel Alexandra also spent time at Rood and Riddle for what was described as a precautionary measure for pain management after her delivery.
"The Society holds a DNA sample for every registered foal born since that date should it be required to identify a pony if for any reason the microchip becomes unreadable, " said its secretary Susan McGeever.
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"Eyebrows started to go up when it was clear Foal Eagle was going to be protected from the budget cuts of sequestration, " the official said, referring to the forced federal spending cuts that went into effect in March.
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