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And now, a birth announcement

2:11 PM, June 5, 2008

Catalinas_first_foul_in_17_years Not our usual territory, but when it's the first horse (a girl, which makes her a filly) born on Catalina Island in 17 years, we'll make an exception.

Here she is, at right, the island's newest attraction. (And may I decimate all sense of neutrality and say, awwww.)





-- Veronique de Turenne

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The real story is how is such an ideal equestrian area - only one foal could be delivered in.... seventeen years. Knowing the single-minded determination of stallions to mate whenever the mares are in estrous, this seems to be an almost physical impossibility.

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Veronique de Turenne
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Veronique de Turenne is a journalist, essayist, book critic and blogger, and has been a staff writer at virtually every newspaper in Southern California. One of the highlights of her career was interviewing Vin Scully in his broadcast booth at Dodger Stadium, then receiving a handwritten thank you note from him a week later. She lives in Malibu.

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