Horse & Hound

Double trouble

IT’S a task I never tire of, although I must have repeated it hundreds of times. That faint hint of elation when a pregnancy scan proves positive has never dimmed.

Mary holds her mare Josie’s tail to one side while I gently introduce the rectal probe. She is such a patient mare, I can examine her in the middle of the stable without risk to me or my very expensive scanner. She had been a

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