Rough

first steps.

despite his untimely birth, the little colt managed to stand in less than a couple of hours in the slippery terrain.

The first light of the next morning was when the miracle was found. Mr Mclean was in doubt it would even survive birth. mother,  nicknamed Tilly stood quietly for Mr Maclean as he gave her a pat and attempted to approach the colt. The colt had his distance. unlike most foals, he showed little curiosity in the tall figure woth only two legs.

Mclean slipped a halter onto Tilly and clipped on the lead, beginning to walk to the gate, he hoped the newborn would follow. The colt was quite stand offish. He didn't understand and didn't want to understand.

'gotta bit of attitude there fella?' Mclean joked as he stopped to see if the baby would catch up with.

Sure enough,  after at least twenty minutes the foal crept up to his mother and walked, very disorientated, to the gate.

Mclean took note of the colts unusually long legs - an ideal trait for a stayer.

Mclean led the two down the paddock lane way,  and every few paddocks he would let Tilly say hello to a waiting horse. They reached  a smaller paddock with a large walk in and out shelter, fitted out with straw bedding, a large haynet and a new state of the art automatic waterer. Mclean gave Tilly one last pat and unbuckled the halter.

To the colts surprise, Tilly trotted over to the shelter.  The colt followed, bucking and kicking his little hooves in every direction.

Mclean watched by the gate. He was happy for his prized mare, and she seemed happy too. Mclean headed to the stables, where a phone hung to his use, and he booked in the vetinarian in 3 days.