The new foal is so tall he has trouble tucking his long, white legs underneath him to nap.


Considering where he came from, the colt called Baby can rest easy.


New life has sprung from a gruesome middle-of-the-night wreck of a horse trailer on the way to a slaughterhouse last September.


A Thoroughbred mare named Mama, one of the dozens of horses trapped inside and rescued, gave birth to healthy foal on April 18. They are resting and doing well at Longmeadow Rescue Ranch in Union, Mo

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