Gamboling in southeastern Ohio

The thoroughbred horse industry is big business, run on a tight margin.
For every million-dollar-winning horse, there are thousands that never make what it cost to raise them.
So the production of new possibilities, new colts that might be winners, is an important part of the business. Mares of good bloodline need to be pregnant and foaling as often as possible.
Time taken to nurse their babies takes away from time producing new babies. So big thoroughbred operations have what are called “nurse mares.” These are horses, of almost any breed, whose own babies are taken away so they can nurse the potential champions born of other horses.
What happens to the foals of those nurse mares? Often, they’re left to die or otherwise disposed of.
But if they’re lucky, they end up at Last Chance Corral, south of Athens, Ohio. For more than a quarter century, Victoria Goss and her assistants and volunteers have operated the horse-rescue operation. By far the biggest part of what it does is collecting the babies of nurse mares and getting them along well enough that they can move to new homes.

The thoroughbred horse industry is big business, run on a tight margin.
For every million-dollar-winning horse, there are thousands that never make what it cost to raise them.
So the production of new possibilities, new colts that might be winners, is an important part of the business. Mares of good bloodline need to be pregnant and foaling as often as possible.
Time taken to nurse their babies ta…  (read more)

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