On Monday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER by

Leslie Guttman, everyone was breathing a sigh of relief after Quarter Horse mare Surely Awesome successfully delivered her foal, Sophie, despite having a severely shattered long pastern bone. The mare’s owner, Susan Blackburn, came down from New York to Kentucky to visit her for the first time since the mare was injured. We

continue with Surely Awesome’s story: 

 “It got immensely better after she had the foal,” said Dr. Ruggles, after he and Surely Awesome’s owner, Susan Blackburn, watched the mare walk down a short length of the barn

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