Bonus for shopkeeper
I’A Ashbuftor A Hinds shopkeeper, John ny ( larke, was hoping for < coll foal from his standard bred mare Kavalla. He got . that — the man foaling a bay colt by forme: New Zealand. Cup winne True Averil — but he ais< received a rather unexpectei bonus. Kavalla also foaled < chestnut filly. Although the; were only born on Monda; night the twins were -in ex .cellent shape yesterda; morning and are ' both a least as big as any norma foal. The incidence of live twi: foals is extremely rare, s< rare in fact that one loca vet. Dr Gordon Burr, sai yesterday that he has onl encountered two live sets i the last 20 years. Dr Burr said the actui twinning conception rate i horses is about two pe cent. “However, the surviva rate of both foals is just, very small fraction of that, he said.
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Press, 29 November 1978, Page 20
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