What happened?
First, this is 100% speculation as this situation will never come to light. I was writing this as a reply to a comment but I thought I’d like to know your opinions as well.
I’ve thought of a few possibilities of what happened, but honestly we will never know the full truth.
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(Most likely) a combination of nutritional deficiencies and charlottes stress. (Katie won’t admit this)
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Red bag delivery and Katie was too late.
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Charlotte foaled alone and spooked or rejected the foal and stepped on it.
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Katie was there, pulled and something went wrong here. (Placenta detached too fast, dropped foal, spooked charlotte…)
I don’t fully believe she was an actual stillborn as there and plenty of eye witnesses of fetal movement in the lives less than 24 hours of foaling. I think something went terribly wrong (which would explain Katie being as emotional as she was knowing she doesn’t really give 2 shits about charlotte) and Katie is trying to spin the narrative like she does. We won’t know the true extent of what happened to this foal.
Posted Mar 5, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC