One reason for your success was that you stayed focussed on an identifiable community of interest — one that I’m sure could be nurtured and drawn to your site on an ongoing basis, should you decide to keep it going (which I hope you’ll consider).

Congratulations on a great effort.

- Owen

Not sure about proportionately if human have larger hearts, but it has been shown that human athletes can gain larger hearts with training. Seven-time Olympic champion runner Paavo Nurmi’s heart was three time larger than an average person’s when x-rayed. This has been found with many marathoners but is seen when they are in peak condition. With horses, the heart size measured at time of autopsy usually is not one of a horse in training, but a horse who has had a breeding career and has been out of training for many years, so the link is more genetic in the horse than human.

And proportionately, do humans have bigger hearts than horses?

You’re always so careful to explain things way beyond the industry’s needs. THANKS! It probably goes without saying that once again, you have educated me. I had no idea people called bloodstock agents existed. But like warmbloods, I won’t soon forget them.

Maybe we can have a contest in class to rename them.

This is not to make light of a serious situation. Working to save a “dummy” foal sounds like a noble pursuit. Shouldn’t the subject of all this work have a name that better reflects its earthly contributions?