When showjumping mare Billy was struggling to give birth to a vastly oversized foal, there was no time to lose. Her owner Russell Stevenson and the referring vet Mike Barrott, from Cinder Hill Equine Clinic, loaded her up immediately for a journey to the Sussex Equine Hospital.
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