Post by caveman on Mar 23, 2014 1:05:58 GMT -6
On the racetrack, Illusionist was a once in a lifetime performer, with a never give-up attitude. But nobody could have prepared for the battle she’d face as a broodmare – fighting for her life, and the survival of her brave foal.
Story by Keith McCalmont
Albert, a stubborn and struggling Mach Three colt, was pulled from his mother by Caesarean section on a Wednesday afternoon and hurried into intensive care as his mother, the millionaire pacing mare Illusionist, fought bravely for her life on the operating table of Dr. Michael Archer.
Born two weeks premature, Albert, weighing in at 130 pounds was unknowingly killing his mother from the inside out, the sheer heft of his unborn body pressing on Illusionist’s abdomen wall and threatening to rupture her prepubic tendon.
Staggered from the anaesthesia pumped through his mother’s body, Albert was carried to a stall and pumped full of oxygen and fluids to keep him alive.
Only then did she started to deteriorate.
www.standardbredcanada.ca/trot/march-2014/survival-fight-lifetime.html
Story by Keith McCalmont
Albert, a stubborn and struggling Mach Three colt, was pulled from his mother by Caesarean section on a Wednesday afternoon and hurried into intensive care as his mother, the millionaire pacing mare Illusionist, fought bravely for her life on the operating table of Dr. Michael Archer.
Born two weeks premature, Albert, weighing in at 130 pounds was unknowingly killing his mother from the inside out, the sheer heft of his unborn body pressing on Illusionist’s abdomen wall and threatening to rupture her prepubic tendon.
Staggered from the anaesthesia pumped through his mother’s body, Albert was carried to a stall and pumped full of oxygen and fluids to keep him alive.
Only then did she started to deteriorate.
www.standardbredcanada.ca/trot/march-2014/survival-fight-lifetime.html