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Originally posted by HRK:
Nothing like watching a new foal, used to work over the summers on a Thoroughbred farm, watched several births, it's amazing how quick they are up.

Good looking foals

Cool job for sure! If you are on FB and want to bring back some good memories, follow our friend who is a photographer in Lexington and basically travels around to all the thoroughbred farms (and races) taking pictures. She knows everybody in the business:
https://www.facebook.com/wendy.u.wooley

Here's a pic she took of our daughter (in front) and her friend when she was up in Lexington for a few months training:

Thanks for posting the pics and video. Reminds me of my childhood. Our family bought a horse and then found out she was pregnant. We watched the whole process from birth to fully functioning horse. It was AN AMAZING experience for a kid. Just seeing them stand and walk within minutes of being born, better than getting eaten in the wild. It was almost as exciting as watching the birth of my two daughters. Then you realize how truly helpless humans are after birth.

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Originally posted by cruiser68:
Just seeing them stand and walk within minutes of being born, better than getting eaten in the wild. It was almost as exciting as watching the birth of my two daughters. Then you realize how truly helpless humans are after birth.

That is definitely the part that always gets me - the way they come out and are immediately mobile and then you think about how long it takes for a human to reach that point...Truly watching a miracle in action, it never gets old.