A CESARIAN FOAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2412, 24 May 1900, Page 38

A CESARIAN FOAL.

It will be remembered that the Somnus mare Trance. who \va^ di c q\ialifiecl for life on j account of her performance in the Queensland j Oup. was subsequently taken to America. She has there been the subject of some notoriety by reason of circumstances narrated in a ' 'Frisco paper : At Senator Porter Ashe's Ruinarb stock farm, in Sonoma, Uounty, recently, j a filly foal was taken from its dam by the cesarian operation, and is to-day a lively little orphan that moy live to do credit to its illustrious lineage. Some time during; the day Trance was found with a leg broken, and the member was po badly shattered thrt Dr Summerfield, veterinary surgeon, decided tlidft it wrg impossible 10 save her. She was due to foal to Ruinari . and il was resolved lo save 'the foal if possible. Chloroform was administered. I and the same operation which brought the im- j mortal Ceesar into bhe world was performed. [ At first the foal showed no signs of life, but ; artificial respiration was employed and sue- • cee:led. The filly, for such was its sex, soon ' was able to stand up, and is to-day running . about the ccral and enjoying' life. r i>anc3 was , brought to this State from Australia by J. D. Lewis, the owner of Tarcoola, who rpced her ', with some (Success o~\ er the local tracks. She j unfortunately slipped her foal last year, and j the one this year has been anxiously expected, j as the mare's breeding was considered to be Just i the proper cross with Ruinart.