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There's a perfection about Clydesdales.

They are incredible athletes,

incredibly graceful in their movement.

Just big personalities.

That makes you feel small

and humbled and incredibly privileged

to be with them.

They're beautiful.

They are just beautiful.

In order to have

a Clydesdale become your partner,

you really have to put your ego

to the side and really be

there for that creature

that depends on you.

I see them as

just the most amazing breed.

It's a treasure trove

of positive traits and characteristics

that I absolutely am passionate

that we should not lose.

You only need to look

at the herd books

to see that it's diminishing.

There are far fewer horses.

You don't need

to be an expert to know that.

That's just obvious.

I started asking questions

of the people who bred the horses,

and they were telling me shocking stories

of the breed entering

what they call the extinction vortex.

When a number of factors come together

and unless you react quickly,

the whole breed can just collapse.

So I could either pretend

I hadn't heard that,

or else I could do something about it.

It's now or never.

We've really got to save this breed.

They touch the soul.

They really do.

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I'm Janice Kirkpatrick.

I'm a designer.

I have a business in Glasgow with my husband,

an architect called Ross Hunter.

We met when we were students.

We work for some

of the big global players,

British Airways, banks like RBS,

a lot of...

Janice!

Am I not allowed to say that?

No.

(Phone ringing)

(laughing)

( motor bike's engine revving)

I suppose I've always been a big

kid my whole life, in lots of ways.

I like toys.

I like bikes.

The power is remarkable.

Horses are the same.

I think women at a young age

identify with the power a horse

can give them and it's exciting.

I was always interested

in the Clydesdale horse

through my love of horses,

but also through design.

Thirty-odd years of practicing as a designer,

I've come to truly believe

that old is gold.

And, for me, the Clydesdale

is very much this kind of a thing.

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Do you remember when horses were here?

Yeah, but, I mean, I can remember

when there was horses here,

but there's not much of it left.

Oh, boy.

(calm music playing)

This is a barn that would have

at one time had several horses in it.

These would have been big horses, Clydesdales,

the pre-eminent breed.

The best breed.

The most highly bred horses in human history.

And people were immensely proud of their horses.

The breed was born

in the Clyde Valley,

to the southwest of Glasgow.

Everything that came from the Clyde

was of incredible quality,

you know, the ships,

the locomotives, steam engines,

and the Clydesdale horse.

In the lowlands of Scotland,

let's not forget the great work

that's been done,

and is still being done by the ploughman

and his good servant, the horse.

The heavy horse,

Scotland's pride and joy, the Clydesdale.

You need a really well assembled

musculoskeletal frame to get great power

from the rear end of a horse

because it's the great power

that gives it its ability

to push into a collar and move,

you know, a ton weight.

And it's also the power you need

for a great riding horse.

That's where the big horse race started.

The race to create the biggest horses

which could produce the most power

that would fuel the agricultural revolutions

and Industrial Revolution.

[PA system] Second, Ronnie Black,

number 10.

And third,

number 11,

Amazing Grace from Sandy Aitken.

Well done, Sandy.

(applauding)

I love coming to shows like this

because it really reminds me

of just how long the Clydesdale has been part

of our culture, our history.

That's a nice one.

Is it square buckles, or?

Yeah, it's proper square buckles.

Those who are taking

part in the pairs competition.

I think my earliest memory is

of being at what must

have been a country fair

or a fete in Dumfries.

And I must have been really wee,

not much more than a toddler.

I remember gripping onto the front

of the saddle and looking down

and the movement of the horse

go like that, and thinking, "Oh!"

Well I think I was seven,

I started proper riding lessons.

Thereafter, I became hooked.

When I was a kid,

shows with Clydesdale horses

would have been packed

and it would have been really exciting.

It would have been a real celebration

go and see the big horses.

Today, it's a much thinner affair.

There are fewer people and older people.

Some of the older photography

when they had dappled greys,

they had horses of all colors

which I think would

have been quite amazing to see.

Today, there's really only one color

of horse and that's brown.

And also there's not many horses.

Well, this class that's

just being shown just now,

in the mid '90s

there could have been 20 in that class

and there are three today.

So I'm not quite sure why.

[PA system]- And that was number 27

from Charles Jamieson.

The overwhelming fact

of the Clydesdale is

that the horse and everything

that surrounds it is aging.

Catalogs are available

from the marquee at the top end of the arena.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning, Joseph.

Ugh.

Hello, Phoebe.

(shoveling sawdust)

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When I went

to Glasgow School of Art, I was 18

and the awful thing was

I had to sell my horse

because no one else in the family rode,

and it scarred me very deeply.

I still have a lot of regret over it.

I always had a heartening

to go back and to ride again.

So I decided I wanted a Clydesdale.

I wanted a black one.

The blacks really appealed to me.

And it's a personal thing I just think

that they look amazing.

I had a look around

and I couldn't find

any black horses in the UK.

So I ended up with this one.

He's an American Clydesdale

from Oregon.

Joe.

He's got a really expressive face.

He's very old-fashioned in style.

He's a big horse by any, any measure.

He's about just a shade under 18 hands.

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Woo!

What makes the Clydesdale so special is

for me just the sheer power of them.

They are just magnificent.

Guys like Joe can be so light,

absolutely light as a feather,

and when you get

that power with the lightness,

it's a really special thing.

When I'd made the decision

to get a black Clydesdale,

I got really interested in why

there were no black horses in the UK.

What happened to the black horses?

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Where had they gone?

(upbeat music playing)

I'm on my way

to meet Shona Harrison,

whose partner, John Zawadski,

sadly died a few months ago.

John was a real expert

in the Clydesdale world

and he traveled up and down the UK

to visit different shows.

I think this is it.

Come into John's office.

I'd love to!

A lot of it's just as he left it

'cause its gonna take a long time

to go through things.

Just watch the steps.

Photographs galore.

Fantastic.

There's one called Grand National

that's used as a...

It's W Johnson, 1918.

I'm very interested in

how the horses change over the centuries.

They definitely have changed a lot.

Over here-

It's a very organized man.

As I was saying,

the breed histories are all down here.

Clydesdale Horse Society history.

All that up there's the history

of Clydesdale Horse Society.

Just amazing.

All the original documents

like newsletters, letters from the secretary,

that sort of thing.

I'm just amazed.

It's not at all what I expected.

So he's pieced together

all the stallion information.

This is going back decades

and decades, you know, like centuries.

It's a cornucopia.

I've never known anything like it.

Just glorious. Gorgeous.

Shona's collection includes antique sales catalogs

from Scotland's most famous breeder

of Clydesdales, Lawrence Drew.

They are just exceptional.

I've never seen catalogs like this ever.

They are absolutely exceptional.

It's a sale catalog

for the Rolls Royces of horses.

Lawrence Drew, he knew

what he was doing.

You know, when you look

at Prince of Wales, I'm sure there must be a note

somewhere about his color

but he looks like a very black horse.

I've not seen a Clydesdale stallion

in the herd today

that looks like this horse.

(car horns honking)

(foot prints approaching)

Ross-o.

Mm-hmm?

This is the treat.

Oh my.

This is the catalog

for the dispersal sale

of Lawrence Drew's herd.

This is 150 years old.

That's amazing.

That's Prince of Wales,

one of the foundation sires.

And these are all drawn.

Wow,

It's just awesome.

What a size of a horse.

Look at that.

It's incredible. (laughing)

And he has a lovely smile as well.

I would too I think if I were him.

I missed this the first time. And I looked at the next page,

and then I flicked back

and I found that.

Does this still exist?

I don't know.

Merryton was where the first Clydesdale horses

were really created.

So what happened to the black horses?

I started to dig.

I'm relieved to find

that Merryton is still a farm.

It looks like the baronial tower is

still there and many of the original buildings.

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Merryton, this is

where Lawrence Drew had his operation.

He was absolutely clear

that his horses weren't

just to be beautiful.

They had to be functional

and, boy, they had to be sound.

Lawrence Drew, he was an entrepreneur.

He was a showman.

Drew knew where he was going

with the commercial part of the business.

Thousands of horses were exported

and because this was very much a business,

they were building a brand

and this was a big plan.

This was a worldwide plan.

This was about exporting

to Australia and Russia

and Italy and North America and Canada.

And the blacks had been exported

as being amongst the highest quality.

If Drew had lived,

I would just love to have seen

what he could have bred.

But he died hence the dispersal sale.

This sale would have drawn people

from all over the world.

And apparently 6,000 people attended it.

So all of his stock,

which was really, you know,

a treasure trove of the breed,

it was being dispersed throughout the world.

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I had a hunch that,

because Clydesdale horses had been exported

that there was a package of genetic material

that had been exported with them.

I want to understand more

about the underlying health

of the Scottish herd

and get a snapshot of whether

or not our gene pool is healthy.

I quickly discovered that the UK

has a very small

and shrinking pool of Clydesdale horses

which means it's very hard

to keep the breed healthy in the future.

I looked a bit further

and started talking to people about it,

talking to the vets about it,

and they started telling me

about problems with the breed.

I started asking questions of the people

who bred the horses.

We lost five one year in a summer.

And they were telling me shocking stories

of the mortality rate

and issues with breeding,

like massively reduced fertility

in mares and stallions,

and increased foal mortality

which means there are simply fewer horses

and there's less genetic diversity.

Clear signals of the breed entering

what they call the extinction vortex.

And, unless you react quickly,

the whole breed can just collapse.

And that changed everything.

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Everyone knows there's a problem

and nobody knows what the solution is,

and nobody wants to act first.

I just found it just incredibly sad.

So, I couldn't possibly not try

and do something about it.

I really needed to go

and speak to some scientists

to find out exactly what was happening.

The first thing we need

to find out is how healthy

is the herd in Scotland?

I'm gonna find somebody,

somebody who has the knowledge

to find out what's happening

and what needs to be done.

Secondly, we need to find out

if there is an issue with inbreeding.

And the most important question

is can the breed survive?

That is the really big question.

Hi, hi, I'm trying to get

through to Jessica Petersen.

(phone ringing)

Hi, Janice.

Thanks for taking this call.

I really appreciate it.

I'm really hoping that you can help

unravel this Clydesdale mystery.

I'm trying to understand

how viable the genetic population is

in our Clydesdale horses in Scotland.

I'm wondering if there's a way

that we can measure that,

if that would be something

that you could help with.

It seems like something

that we could get at using genetic data.

How diverse is this population?

Are the Scottish horses different

than North American horses?

So definitely something

that's up my alley.

Jessica has agreed to do a genetic study

of the Clydesdale populations

in the USA, Canada, and the UK.

And in order to do this,

she needs DNA from horses

in all three countries.

By collecting that DNA,

she can get a snapshot of the diversity

and therefore the health of the populations

in those respective countries.

So Jessica is gonna get 50 samples from Canada,

50 samples from the USA,

which leaves me

to get 50 samples from the UK.

And that gives us 150 hair follicle samples

which is 150 bits of horse DNA.

That should be great.

We should be good to go with that.

This is my little tool kit

for my genetic collections.

It requires the breeder

to provide a hair sample

of around 30 to 40 follicles

which are pulled from the mane or the tail.

I'm gonna do three horses this morning.

That's us.

That's our first sample.

So that's about 30, 40 hairs

with the roots in tact.

Stick that in an envelope.

What I'm gonna do

this afternoon is contact breeders

in the UK independently,

explain to them the project,

and ask them to participate.

Hi, it's Janice Kirkpatrick

trying to reach Caroline Reynolds

regarding the Clydesdale DNA information.

There's this feeling generally

within the kind of Clydesdale owners

in Scotland and in the UK

that everything's just okay.

You know, they see the horse

outside in the field

and the horse looks healthy

and I don't think we've quite got

the urgency of the situation.

But people have been actually

okay about it, saying,

"Yes, we will do it."

Thanks, thank you.

Need to count the bags.

One, two, three, four.

You're a star.

Thank you.

It would just really help.

16 samples.

Fantastic.

I'm sort of the individual

behind the Clydesdale project.

Another two.

I've got another two.

Ah.

Blackstone.

Thank you, Bob.

Two, three, four...36.

So far, so we need another 14.

Thank you so much.

Bye.

49, 50.

We actually have,

we have 50 samples.

We've got 50 samples.

That means that we've actually managed

to find enough DNA to do our survey

of the Clydesdale population.

It's really good.

This just came in the post

for you, Janice.

Oh, thanks, Zoe.

These are the results

of the DNA analysis.

Ah.

Data generated from these samples

support what you suspected.

Based upon the relative isolation

and small population size

of Clydesdales in Scotland,

they do have less diversity

than Clydesdales studied from North America.

And there is an increase in inbreeding

within the Scottish population.

Jessica, I've only skimmed it

but it seems that our hunch was right

that there is an issue with genetic diversity.

So, yes, the concern about

the Scottish population

being very small in size held true

in that inbreeding estimates

of the horses in Scotland

were generally quite a bit

higher than from horses in North America.

And that goes back again

to the small population size

where if there's just not

a whole lot of horses,

you're going to be mating relatives

to relatives whether or not

you are intending to do so.

For the first time, I think

we have definitive, scientific, genetic proof

that the Clydesdale herd

in Scotland is in danger.

We have to do something about it.

It suddenly dawned on me

that I could maybe bring

back some new genetic material,

new genetic Clydesdale material to Scotland

that would give it some diversity

and some sustainability.

The very best horses were exported

because they commanded the highest prices.

They were exported to Canada

from Glasgow, from Liverpool,

and then from Canada they went down

into the United States and South America.

When the genetic material was dispersed,

some pretty big herds

were founded across Canada,

and some of the black bloodlines

are in these herds today.

The black bloodlines that have their roots

in the old stud books in Scotland.

What I'm looking for is

a great-looking and great-performing

pregnant, breeding mare

so I can create black Clydesdale horses in Scotland.

I think the time has now come

for the horse to come back home

again to the place it was created.

It's important that I bring

a horse back into the UK

that is as different as possible

genetically from the horses

that we have at the moment.

Because by doing that,

I will strengthen and widen

and deepen the genetic pool.

(airplane touching down)

Wow.

I've come to Saskatchewan

because there are descendants

of the original horses

that were exported

from Scotland to Canada

all these years ago.

Here we go.

We got some Clydesdales.

Such an amazing country.

It's so big and flat

and vast and endless.

It's so different from Scotland

and the land that we bred

those horses on originally.

With me I have got John Hankinson

who is a long-standing good friend.

He's an equine manipulator.

He's a master farrier.

He's got a whole bunch

of tools in his box.

Let's just go in this way.

Is this it?

We're here.

At last.

Janice, how we doin'?

Good to see you.

Good to see you.

This is John. Hi there, how ya doin'?

This is Derek.

Nice to meet you.

Derek Cey is a family of Clydesdale breeders.

I think the 5th generation of Clydesdale breeding.

(whistling)

Come on.

Hello.

Hello.

This is great.

This is what I came here for.

Just like swimming with horses.

It's just brilliant. (laughing)

Derek's herd is vast compared

to anything I can look at at home.

And it's very moving because

it evokes the images

of these huge studs that we had

in Scotland 100 years ago, 150 years ago.

It's just such a treat to see that.

I've gotta to be really objective.

When I see a horse I like,

I'll write down the name,

I'll take a photograph on my phone.

I want a horse

that has big hind quarters,

not fat hind quarters,

big muscular hind quarters

that's where the power comes.

The limbs have gotta be straight.

I also want a horse

that has got really

great rhythm, great movement,

that has got a kind

of cadence to its step.

Amber, 3-year old, she's got a little

bit of an attitude.

Can we take a closer look?

Yep, you betcha.

She caught my eye.

She caught John's eye.

And she's got nice shoulders,

all her zones are good.

She's actually got quite a nice rear end.

What do you think?

Yeah, I like her.

Yeah, yeah.

The other thing about Amber

is she is in foal.

Derek thinks it's Willow Way Nightlight

who is the big black stallion.

So that adds a different dimension,

he's quite a rare black bloodline

from an excellent herd of Clydesdales.

Lot o' check marks you got goin' there.

I like to see that book

when you're all done. (laughing)

It's tiring.

'Cause you concentrate

and you think I mustn't mess this up.

I mustn't miss something.

So where do you keep your good ones, Derek?

You know how that worked?

So Janice, what are your thoughts?

I really liked Amber.

What did you think?

I think you've mentioned the one

that I've got on my sort of list

as being the prime candidate.

She's in foal, she's got the right attitude.

She's got a nice action.

She's good clean-limbed.

Looks to tick all the boxes.

She's at the moment the one

that I'm thinking is

probably the best one for you.

What's the plan now?

Are we gonna do hands on?

I think that would be a good idea.

I wanted a pair of eyes

on this horse and a pair of hands

on this horse.

John's a very, very good judge

of how a horse is put together physically.

So far, so good.

John's also got a good feel

for personalities.

This is good.

A hell of a girl.

I like this one.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Yeah.

Thank you, John.

She's a crackin' girl, isn't she?

Fabulous.

Hey good girl.

I think that really affected John.

Very rarely, he ever finds a horse

that tries so hard

that he was just amazed at this horse

which is really a wild horse

was trying so hard

to understand what he wanted.

Team hug.

Team hug.

Thank you.

I'm so pleased that you came with me.

That's the right horse.

Her energy is just amazing.

Hey there.

Yes, I've not organized it all

but yes we have a horse.

You are gonna love her.

John is absolutely in love with her,

like unbelievably in love with her.

What this horse is bringin'

over is a whole toolkit of genetic

lovely things that could take

the Scottish herd in different directions.

And that for me is really exciting.

This isn't just about even my lifetime.

This is about other peoples' lifetimes.

Of all breeds, the Clydesdale deserves a future.

So today is D-day.

Really is the conclusion of Amber's

journey over here.

She's had 3,000 kilometers by road

and then another 8 hour journey from Chicago.

It's been delayed for 5 hours

so she's gonna be fairly tired.

I'm really looking forward to seeing her.

My husband Ross hasn't seen her at all

so it's a big deal

for both of us really.

(upbeat music playing)

Amber coped ridiculously well

with the travel.

It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas.

I'm very relieved that she is so cool

with everything.

She's not phased by it so that's good.

Don't need your help.

You're such a pest.

This is our Canadian lady.

Don't be cheeky.

She's very cheeky.

I don't call my horses

by their pedigree names.

It's quite nice just

to hang with them

for awhile and find out

what their characters are like.

She just doesn't feel like an Amber.

She's not an amber light.

This horse is a full-on green light.

She was just so audacious

that I decided to call her Jesse James

after the outlaw.

Good girl, good girl.

We've got John Morris,

my local vet coming

to have a look at Jesse.

I'm knackered.

Is this your new girl, Janice?

This certainly is.

Good girl, good girl.

All right so these are identification

documents for the Clydesdale Horse Society.

She looks a very different type.

It's interesting to see

that there was another line

of Clydesdales differentiated in another country.

In terms of her pregnancy,

we don't know quite how far on she is.

It's really very difficult

to try and get a date.

It's not unusual to find that

people sit up for about two weeks

waiting for their mare to foal. And then they go to bed

because they're so tired

and then guess what happens,

they foal that night.

Are there any particular features

of a Clydesdale birth

as opposed to a normal horse birth?

Clydesdales can be more difficult.

If the foal's not

in the right position,

then they can get stuck.

Beyond that there's an inner sack.

Normally the foal bursts through that.

That's part of the birth process

but if the foal is born

and the sack is over its face

then it can't breathe.

It's quite scary stuff actually

especially when it's horses that you love.

If things go wrong,

they go terribly wrong.

and they go wrong very, very quickly.

I've got a very good imagination.

I'm very good at imagining horror stories.

One thing that's become really clear to me

about how we save the Clydesdale

is if we can't tie it

to a hopeful future, it will die.

I really want to create

the world center for this horse

that has got some permanence,

that's got some sustainability going forward.

It builds some value into the horses

so that there's a market for people

who want to buy them,

look after them, and enjoy them,

and keep breeding them.

The actual archway is 17th century.

I've not been here for years.

Absolutely years.

I think Pollok Park Stables are fabulous.

They are fabulous.

They are beautiful.

Early 18th century stables so they fit

entirely with the story of the Clydesdale.

It actually has done well.

It has.

To stay up so well.

The roof's not exactly straight

and I see the pigeons have moved in

but it's not the worst.

So these would be the original stables.

Tell a few stories.

Lots of teeth marks and foot marks,

but no horses.

It'd be great to get them back again.

Oh yes it would.

That's the plan.

Yes, I hope so.

Seems to me

that Pollok House Stables

is a bit of a gift

because it's right in the center of Glasgow

in the Clyde Valley,

the source of this amazing horse.

Pollok Park could be the thing

that helps save the Clydesdale.

Trying to keep sight of Jesse today

because she's really close to giving birth

and I don't want her to creep off

and give birth in the field shelter

or in some other corner of the field.

Because things happen really quickly

in foaling this is me being organized.

I didn't want to get caught up

in the action and not know what to do.

At what point does it get dangerous?

Just watching the time again,

the foal standing, sucking.

There's a 1, 2, 3 rule

which is foal standing within an hour,

sucking within 2 hours,

and placenta passed within 3 hours.

If anything goes wrong,

it goes catastrophically wrong,

very, very quickly.

We installed a little Wi-Fi camera

which is brilliant.

Because it connects to my mobile phone

or my other devices

and it means I can watch

what's happening in the foaling box

so I can check during the night

and just see where she's at.

If there's much movement,

the camera tells me there's movement.

All we can do now is wait.

I want to bring people together

who have an interest in the future

of the Clydesdale horse in Pollok Park.

Around 30% of Clydesdale foals

are dying from a range of disorders

commonly associated with a diminishing

population and a thinning gene pool.

And compared to most

other common horse breeds,

deaths are really rare.

So 30% is a huge number

and it's heartbreaking.

It's heartbreaking for breeders

and it's heartbreaking for the mares

who can carry their foals

for a year before they give birth.

We can do something about it.

What I'd like to do now is

to explore how we might create

a sustainable world center

here in Pollok Park.

Pollok Stables, something that's vibrant,

that's world class.

(applauding)

I have been involved in this project.

It makes sense to me

and this is the moment

when I discover if it is

actually going to make sense

to anybody else.

So there's a lot riding on it.

All breeders as well,

I think we actually need

to work as one.

We need to research old methods,

try to find a way to replicate,

not look what's missing.

We're seeing how important it is

to have somebody like Janice

who has the energy and drive

to just say to people, "Let's do it."

The urgency of the situation

is to sort the gene pool out

and have a breeding plan

that will ensure the health

of the continuity of this breed.

It was really good,

really positive, really positive.

I really feel that we can make something happen.

I feel very good about it.

You know when something feels right.

You just know it.

Hi there.

It's Janice Kirkpatrick at Lindsayston.

I have a mare

who I think might foal tonight.

Thank you.

Thanks.

It got to half past five

in the morning and nothing.

So I went back to sleep.

I don't like lookin' back

at that bit of film very much.

The foal can't breathe on her own yet

because her face is completely covered

in this amniotic sack

that has to be removed.

And Jesse needs to break the sack.

She needs to do it quickly

so the foal doesn't suffocate.

Jesse just instinctively knows

that she's gotta get the sack

off the face of her foal

and help her breathe.

Woke up again, 10 past 6

and there's this little white face

peering out from the straw.

Absolutely shocked.

It was like,

where the hell did that come from?

Ross was going, "There's a face!

There's a face!"

Hello!

It's not up yet.

It just happened.

We'd better phone the vet.

Can you phone John for me?

John? Who's John?

There's an awful lot of blood.

Um...

The, the vet!

That's a wee girl.

A wee girl.

That's a good girl.

Yes.

That's your mum.

When Jesse was pregnant,

I was convinced that this foal

wanted be called Snowy

and Ross thought I was mad.

She's got a big white face

and she's this weird lavender color

with flecks of white through her coat

so she is quite a snowy horse.

She'll go pretty much black.

Thanks for coming over John.

I really appreciate it.

Has the foal been up yet?

No, not yet.

She's finding it really hard to stand.

And we've just been doing a combination

of letting her sleep.

She then gets up,

she can actually latch

onto the teat now

but she can't stand for long.

She's so slippery.

We really want to get Snowy

standing so that she can suckle

from Jesse and get milk, especially

the first milk which is called

colostrum which has got

antibodies in it which will help

build her immune system.

And that's one of the things

that can cause mortality in foals,

is not getting enough colostrum.

We thought, oh, my God,

something's going wrong here.

The structure of the foal's stomach

changes after eight hours

and it becomes impossible

for the foal then to benefit

from this immunity given to it

by its mothers milk.

John wants to make sure

that we've got her immune system

kicked in so he's going to,

he's putting a tube into her stomach

and putting in quite

a lot of colostrum.

He's got to be very careful

to get the tube into the stomach,

not the lungs.

See it there?

Yeah.

And if we can see it...

Yeah.

It's in the right place.

It means it's not in the airway.

It's way down here.

Snowy's snoring and drinking

at the same time.

Just pull it off.

That's good.

There we go.

Well done.

So all that milk in you,

you're going to be strong now.

There we go.

Now she's had some colostrum,

the biggest problem is getting

them up and getting them sucking

within a reasonable amount of time.

Yeah, good girl.

Up we go

Get it right here,

you're a wee bit

too far back again.

She's going for the right bit.

It's always in my mind that

I could lose a foal,

I could lose a mare.

I really, really, really want

this foal to suckle.

The sooner she can stand up

on her own and suck, the better.

If only she could stand

on her own, it would be perfect.

(horse whining)

Whoa!

And we're up!

Oh!

That's it.

Are you going to be a big grey girl?

Are you?

Are you going to be a black roan?

Are you going to be black?

Have you got little teeth?

Are these your teeth?

They're tiny teeth.

Imagine having tiny little teeth like that.

Yeah.

I think I've achieved way more

than I ever set out to do.

Atta girl.

Good girl.

I asked a fairly simple question

about why there were

no black horses in the UK.

I got a much bigger,

deeper, wider answer

which gave us a clear indication

of what we need to do

to save this breed.

And there are many other people

who have joined me

who also see the potential in this horse.

Come on, Janice.

I believe I've at least started the journey

of helping them flourish again.

Now how could you not be excited

about something that was created

in this place?

We need to be proud of it

and own it and embrace it

and make sure

it has a bright, shiny future.