Freddie is by a long-admired, very successful endurance stallion (since been exported UAE) that I’ve  wanted to use for a number years…I just needed the right mare. By chance I had just decided to retire my favourite ridden mare, Evie. She’d be perfect. After an eventful pregnancy and tough birth, Freddie was earthside and just perfect. Exactly as I had envisioned! Just a week after birth it was evident that Evie’s milk was drying up (reason still unknown). Vet intervention didn’t make any difference, so I started supplementing Freddie. She did her best by her beautiful son but heath niggles wore her down until I decided to separate them and continue raising him myself (what’s one more orphan!) with the assistance of Tess and the minis to mould him into an upstanding citizen. Neither Evie nor Freddie have looked back and are doing so much better for being separated. We’re still investigating what went wrong with a Evie.