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Clydesdale: Saving the Greatest Horse (2020) is an inspiring story that follows the journey of a remarkable horse and the people who work together to protect its legacy. Set against beautiful scenery, this heartfelt documentary celebrates dedication, care, and the unique bond between humans and animals. A moving tale of hope and resilience for all ages.
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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30...and their movement.
00:32Just big personalities.
00:36It makes you feel small and humbled and incredibly privileged to be with them.
00:46They're beautiful. They are just beautiful.
00:53In order to have a Clydesdale become your partner, you really have to put your ego to the side.
00:59And really be there for that creature that depends on you.
01:09I see them as just the most amazing breed.
01:12It's a treasure trove of positive traits and characteristics that I absolutely am passionate that we should not lose.
01:23You only need to look at the herd books to see that it's diminishing.
01:26There are far fewer horses. You don't need to be an expert to know that. That's just obvious.
01:32I started asking questions to people who bred the horses.
01:36And they were telling me shocking stories of the breed entering what they call the extinction vortex.
01:42When the number of factors come together, and unless you react quickly, the whole breed can just collapse.
01:52So, I could either pretend I hadn't heard that, or else I could do something about it.
01:58It's now or never. We've really got to save this breed.
02:05They touch the soul. They really do.
02:10I'm Janice Kirkpatrick. I'm a designer. I have a business in Glasgow with my husband.
02:28An architect called Wells Hunter. We met when we were students.
02:45We work for some of the big global players. British Airways, banks like RBS, a lot of them.
02:53Janice!
02:54Am I not allowed to say that?
02:55No!
02:58I suppose I've always been a big kid in my whole life in lots of ways.
03:05I like toys. I like bikes. The power is remarkable.
03:11Horses are the same.
03:14I think women at a young age identify with the power a horse can give them.
03:19And it's exciting.
03:21I was always interested in the Clydesdale horse through my love of horses, but also through design.
03:3130-odd years of practising 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.
03:44Do you remember when horses were here?
03:56Yeah, but I mean I can remember when there was horses here but there's not much of it left.
04:01Oh boy.
04:02This is a barn that would have at one time had several horses in it.
04:18These would have been big horses. Clydesdale's. The preeminent breed. The best breed. The most highly bred horses in human history. And people were immensely proud of their horses.
04:35The breed was born in the Clyde Valley to the south west of Glasgow.
04:46Everything that came from the Clyde was of incredible quality. You know, the ships, the locomotives, steam engines and the Clydesdale horse.
04:58In 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.
05:15You 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.
05:38That'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.
05:50I love coming to shows like this because it really reminds me of just how you
06:19how long the Clydesdale has been part of our culture, our history. That's a nice one. That looks nice.
06:26Is it square buckles, round buckles? Yeah, but square buckles, proper square buckles.
06:30Those who are taking part in the Pears competition.
06:35I think my earliest memory is of being at what must have been a country fair or a fete in Dumfries.
06:46And 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 going like that and thinking, oh.
06:59When I think I was seven, I started proper riding lessons. Thereafter, I became hooked.
07:11I got the winner of the Clydesdale horses.
07:14When I was a kid, shows with Clydesdale horses would have been packed and it would have been really exciting. It would have been a celebration, go and see the big horses.
07:23Today, it's a much thinner affair. There are fewer people and older people.
07:30Some of the older photography, when they had dappled greys, they had horses of all colours, which I think would have been quite amazing to see.
07:42Today, there's really only one colour of horse and that's brown. And also, there's not many horses.
07:54Well, this class is just being shown just now in the mid-90s. There could have been 20 in that class. There are three today.
08:04So I'm not quite sure why.
08:16The overwhelming fact of the Clydesdale is that the horse and everything that surrounds it is ageing.
08:25Catalogues are available from the marquee at the top end of the arena.
08:34Good morning, everybody.
08:38Good morning, Joseph.
08:44Hello, Phoebe.
08:45When 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.
09:04And it scarred me very deeply. I still have a lot of regret over it.
09:11I always had a heartening to go back and to ride again.
09:17So I decided I wanted a Clydesdale.
09:22I wanted a black one.
09:27The blacks really appealed to me. It's a personal thing. I just think that they look amazing.
09:34I had a look around and I couldn't find any black horses in the UK.
09:41So I ended up with this one.
09:44He's an American, Clydesdale.
09:49From Oregon.
09:52Joe.
09:54He's got a really expressive face.
09:59He's very old fashioned in style.
10:01He's a big horse by any, any measure.
10:05He's about, just a shade under 18 hands.
10:14Woo!
10:18What makes the Clydesdale so special is for me just the sheer power of them.
10:23They are just magnificent.
10:25Guys like Joe can be so light, absolutely light as a feather.
10:31And when you get that power with the lightness, it's a really special thing.
10:36When I'd made the decision to get a black Clydesdale, I got really interested in why there were no black horses in the UK.
10:42What had happened to the black horses.
10:48Where had they gone?
10:51I'm on my way to meet Shona Harrison, whose partner John Zawadsky sadly died a few months ago.
11:09John was a real expert in the Clydesdale world and he travelled up and down the UK to visit different shows.
11:17I think this is it.
11:23Come into John's office.
11:26I'd love to.
11:28A lot of it's just as he left it, because it's going to take a long time to go through things.
11:32Just watch the steps.
11:35Photographs galore.
11:36Fantastic.
11:38There's a one called Grand National that's used as a plate.
11:42It's W. Johnson, 1918.
11:44I'm very interested in how the horses change over the centuries.
11:48They definitely have changed a lot.
11:50Over here, as I was saying, the breed history is all down here.
11:55Clydesdale Horse Society history.
11:58All that up there is history of Clydesdale Horse Society.
12:01All original documents like newsletters, letters from the secretary, that sort of thing.
12:05I'm just amazed it's not at all what I expected.
12:09So he's pieced together all the Australian information.
12:14This has gone back decades and decades, you know, like centuries.
12:18It's a cornucopia.
12:20I've never known anything like it.
12:25Just gorgeous.
12:30Shona's collection includes antique sales catalogues from Scotland's most famous breeders.
12:35The author of Clydesdale's Lawrence Drew.
12:37They are just exceptional.
12:43I've never seen catalogues like this ever.
12:45They are absolutely exceptional.
12:48It's a sale catalogue for the Rolls Royces of horses.
12:54Lawrence Drew, he knew what he was doing.
12:57You know, when you look at Prince of Wales, I'm sure there must be a note somewhere about his colour, but he looks like a very black horse.
13:06I've not seen a Clydesdale stallion in the herd today that looks like this horse.
13:13It looks like this horse.
13:24Russell!
13:25Mm-hmm.
13:27This is the treat.
13:29Oh, my.
13:31It's the catalogue for the dispersal sale of Lawrence Drew's herd.
13:38This is 150 years old.
13:40That's amazing.
13:41That's Prince of Wales, one of the foundation sires.
13:45And these are all drawn.
13:46Wow.
13:47Lord.
13:48It's just awesome.
13:50Wow, what a size of a horse.
13:52Look at that.
13:53It's incredible.
13:54You see a lovely smile as well.
13:55I would too, I think, if I were him.
13:59I missed this the first time and I looked at the next page and then I flicked back and I found that.
14:04Does this still exist?
14:05I don't know.
14:06Meryton was where the first Clydesdale horses were really created.
14:14So what happened to the black horses?
14:18I started to dig.
14:25I'm relieved to find that Meryton is still a farm.
14:29It looks like the baronial tower is still there and many of the original buildings.
14:48Meryton.
14:50This is where Lawrence Drew had his operation.
14:53He was absolutely clear that his horses weren't just to be beautiful.
15:03They had to be functional and, boy, they had to be sound.
15:12Lawrence Drew, he was an entrepreneur, he was a showman.
15:18Drew knew where he was going with the commercial part of the business.
15:24Thousands of horses were exported.
15:27And because this was very much a business, they were building a brand.
15:31And this was a big plan.
15:32This was a worldwide plan.
15:34This was about exporting to Australia and Russia and Italy and North America and Canada.
15:41And the blacks had been exported as being amongst the highest quality.
15:46If Drew had lived, I would just love to have seen what he could have read.
15:59But he died.
16:01Hence the dispersal sale.
16:05This sale would have drawn people from all over the world.
16:08And apparently 6,000 people attended it.
16:14So all of his stock, which was really, you know, a treasure trove of the breed,
16:21it was being dispersed throughout the world.
16:24I had a hunch that because Clydesdale horses had been exported, that there was a package of genetic material that had been exported with them.
16:43I want to understand more about the underlying health of the Scottish herd.
16:50And get a snapshot of whether or not our gene pool is healthy.
16:55I quickly discovered that the UK has a very small and shrinking pool of Clydesdale horses.
17:04Which means it's very hard to keep the breed healthy in the future.
17:11I looked in a bit further and started talking to people about it, talking to the vets about it.
17:17And they started telling me about problems with the breed.
17:21I started asking questions to people who bred the horses.
17:26We lost five in one year, in a summer.
17:29And they were telling me shocking stories of the mortality rate and issues of breeding.
17:36Like massively reduced fertility in mares and stallions.
17:41And increased full mortality.
17:44Which means there are simply fewer horses and there's less genetic diversity.
17:50Clear signals of the breed entering what they call the extinction vortex.
17:55And unless you react quickly, the whole breed can just collapse.
17:59And that changed everything.
18:04Everyone knows there's a problem.
18:09Nobody knows what the solution is.
18:14And nobody wants to act first.
18:17I just found it just incredibly sad.
18:21It was like I couldn't possibly not try and do something about it.
18:31I really needed to go and speak to some scientists to find out exactly what was happening.
18:36The first thing we need to find out is how healthy is the herd in Scotland.
18:47I'm going to find somebody, somebody who has the knowledge to find out what's happening and what needs to be done.
18:55Secondly, we need to find out if there is an issue with inbreeding.
19:03And the most important question is, can the breed survive?
19:07That is the really big question.
19:19Hi, hi. I'm trying to get through to Jessica Peterson.
19:21Hi, Janice.
19:26Thanks for taking this call. I really appreciate it.
19:29I'm really hoping that you can help unravel this Clydesdale mystery.
19:35I'm trying to understand how viable the genetic population is in our Clydesdale horses in Scotland.
19:48I'm wondering if there's a way that we can measure that, if that would be something that you could help with.
19:54It seems like something that we could get at using genetic data.
19:57How diverse is this population?
20:00Are the Scottish horses different than North American horses?
20:02So definitely something that's up my alley.
20:08Jessica has agreed to do a genetic study of the Clydesdale populations in the USA, Canada and the UK.
20:16And in order to do this, she needs DNA from horses in all three countries.
20:23By collecting that DNA, she can get a snapshot of the diversity and therefore the health of the populations in those respective countries.
20:32So Jessica is going to get 50 samples from Canada, 50 samples from the USA, which leaves me to get 50 samples from the UK.
20:43And that gives us 150 hair follicle samples, which is 150 bits of horse DNA.
20:51That should be great. It should be good to go with that.
20:54This is my little toolkit for my genetic collections.
21:07It requires the breeder to provide a hair sample of around 30 to 40 follicles, which are pulled from the mane or the tail.
21:18I'm going to do three horses this morning.
21:26That's us. That's our first sample.
21:29So that's about, I would say, 30, 40 hairs with the roots intact.
21:35Stick that in an envelope.
21:36What I'm going to do this afternoon is contact breeders in the UK independently, explain to them the project and ask them to participate.
21:49Hi, it's Janice Kirkpatrick, trying to reach Caroline Reynolds regarding the Clydesdale DNA information.
21:56There's this feeling generally within the Clydesdale owners in Scotland and in the UK that everything's just okay.
22:05You know, they see the horse outside in the field and the horse looks healthy.
22:09I don't think we've quite got the urgency of the situation.
22:12But people have been actually okay about it, saying, yes, we'll do it.
22:16Thanks. Thank you.
22:19I need to get food bags.
22:21One, two, three, four.
22:24You're a star. Thank you.
22:27It would just really help.
22:30Sixteen samples.
22:33I'm sort of individual behind the Clydesdale project.
22:37Another two. I've got another two.
22:40Ah, Blackstone.
22:41Thank you, Bob.
22:44Two, three, four, thirty-six.
22:47So far.
22:49So we need another fourteen.
22:53Thank you so much.
22:54Bye.
22:58Forty-nine. Fifty.
23:00We actually have, we have fifty samples.
23:03We've got fifty samples.
23:05That means that we've actually managed to find enough DNA to do our software.
23:11We've got a survey of the Clydesdale population.
23:13It's really good.
23:14It's really good.
23:15It's really nice, just to be friends.
23:16And it's really good to know how far it has gone.
23:18We've got a survey of the Lauren-based children.
23:20It's really good to have any questions.
23:22We have to do this.
23:23Oh, do I see, John?
23:24Yes!
23:26Wow.
23:28Yeah.
23:59Ah, data generated from these samples to support what you suspected.
24:05Based upon the relative isolation and small population size of clouds as in Scotland,
24:09they do have less diversity than Clownsdale's studied from North America.
24:14And there is an increase in inbreeding within the Scottish population.
24:20Jessica, I've only skimmed it, but it seems that our hunch was right,
24:25that there is an issue with genetic diversity.
24:28So, yes, the concern about the Scottish population being very small in size
24:33held true in that inbreeding estimates of the horses in Scotland
24:39were generally quite a bit higher than from horses in North America.
24:45And that goes back, again, to the small population size
24:49where if there's just not a whole lot of horses,
24:51you're going to be mating relatives to relatives whether or not you are intending to do so.
24:56For the first time, I think we have definitive scientific genetic proof
25:04that the Clownsdale herd in Scotland is in danger.
25:08We have to do something about it.
25:09It suddenly dawned on me that I could maybe bring back some new genetic material,
25:20new genetic Clownsdale material to Scotland
25:22that would give it some diversity and some sustainability.
25:26The very best horses were exported because they commanded the highest prices.
25:36They were exported to Canada from Glasgow, from Liverpool,
25:43and then from Canada they went down into the United States and South America.
25:48When the genetic material was dispersed,
25:55some pretty big herds were founded across Canada
25:59and some of the black bloodlines are in these herds today,
26:03the black bloodlines that have their roots in the old stud books in Scotland.
26:07What I'm looking for is a great-looking and great-performing pregnant breeding mare
26:18so I can create black Clydesdale horses in Scotland.
26:23I think the time has now come for the horse to come back home again
26:32to the place it was created.
26:36It's important that I bring a horse back into the UK
26:40that is as different as possible genetically
26:43from the horses that we have at the moment
26:45because by doing that I will strengthen and widen and deepen the genetic pool.
26:53So what I do is I do is try and find a way to get to the
27:20Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
27:50...of the original horses that were exported from Scotland to Canada all these years ago.
28:00Turn left at the stop slide.
28:04Here we go.
28:07Yep. I think you've got some Clydesdales.
28:14Just such an amazing country. It's so big.
28:17You know, flat and vast and endless. It's so different from Scotland and the land that we bred those horses on originally.
28:27With me I have got John Hankinson, who is a long-standing good friend.
28:33He's an equine manipulator. He's a master farrier. He's got a whole bunch of tools in his box.
28:40Let's just go in this way. This it?
28:45Yep.
28:52We're here.
28:54Good last.
28:55Good last.
29:00Janice, how are we doing?
29:02Good to see you.
29:04Hi there. How are you doing?
29:06Nice to meet you.
29:08Nice to meet you.
29:09Derek C is from a family of Clydesdale breeders. I think they're the fifth generation of Clydesdale breeding.
29:17It's up.
29:18Boop, boop, boop, boop.
29:19They're coming.
29:20They're coming.
29:21They're coming.
29:22They're coming.
29:23Awesome.
29:24They're coming.
29:25They're coming.
29:27They're coming.
29:40They're coming.
29:43Awesome.
29:44C'est un bon.
29:46C'est un bon.
30:02C'est un bon.
30:06Bonjour.
30:14C'est un bon.
30:25C'est un bon.
30:27C'est un bon.
30:28C'est un bon.
30:30C'est un bon.
30:31C'est un bon.
30:32C'est ce que je suis venu pour.
30:34C'est comme moi autres.
30:36C'est un bon.
31:09It's just such a treat to see that
31:12I've got to be really objective
31:18When I see a horse I like
31:20I'll write down the name
31:21I'll take a photograph on my phone
31:23I own a horse that has big hindquarters
31:31Not fat hindquarters
31:32Big muscular hindquarters
31:34That's where the power comes
31:35The limbs have got to be straight
31:37I also want a horse
31:42That has got
31:44Really great rhythm
31:47Great movement
31:47That has got a kind of cadence to its step
31:51Amber
31:55A three-year-old
31:56She's got a little bit of an attitude
31:59Can we take a closer look at it?
32:03Yeah, you betcha
32:04She caught my eye
32:08She caught John's eye
32:09And she's got a nice shoulder
32:12All her zones are good
32:14She's actually got quite a nice rear end
32:17What do you think?
32:18Yeah, I like it
32:19Yeah
32:19Yeah
32:20The other thing about Amber
32:25Is she is in full
32:27Derek thinks it's willowy nightlight
32:30Who is the big black stallion
32:33So that adds a different dimension
32:37He's quite a rare black bloodline
32:40From an excellent herd
32:42Of Clydesdale's
32:43A lot of check marks
32:46You've got going there
32:47Stuff
32:48I like to see that book
32:49When you're all done
32:50It's tiring
32:53Because you're concentrating
32:54You're thinking
32:54I mustn't mess this up
32:55I mustn't miss something
32:56So where do you keep
32:59Your good ones, Derek?
33:01You know how that works
33:02So, Janice, what are you thoughts?
33:09I really liked Amber
33:13What did you think?
33:17Well, I think you've mentioned
33:19The one that I've got on my sort of list
33:22As being the prime candidate
33:24She's in full
33:25She's got the right attitude
33:27She's got a nice action
33:28She's a good, clean-limbed
33:29Looks to tick all the boxes
33:30As I say, she at the moment
33:32Is the one that I'm thinking
33:33Is probably the best one for you
33:35What's the plan now?
33:39Are we going to do
33:40The hands-on bit?
33:41I think that would be a good idea
33:43I wanted a pair of eyes
33:52On this horse
33:53And a pair of hands
33:54On this horse
33:55John's a very, very good judge
34:01Of how a horse is put together physically
34:03That's you
34:06So far, so good
34:24John's also got a good feel
34:30For personalities
34:32This is good
34:37A hell of a girl
34:42I like this one
34:43What are you?
34:49Awesome
34:49Awesome
34:50Yeah
34:51Thank you, John
34:52She's a cracking girl, isn't she?
34:55Yeah
34:55Fabulous
34:57Yeah, good girl
34:59And I think that really affected John
35:02Very rarely he ever finds a horse
35:04That tries so hard
35:05And he was just amazed
35:06That this horse
35:07Which was really a wild horse
35:08Was trying so hard
35:10To understand what he wanted
35:12Team Hog
35:14Team Hog
35:16Thank you
35:17I'm so pleased that you came with me
35:19That's the right horse
35:21Her energy is just amazing
35:25Hey there
35:31Have you organised it?
35:34Yes
35:34I've not organised it all
35:36But yes, we have a horse
35:37You are going to love her
35:39John is absolutely in love with her
35:42Like, unbelievably in love with her
35:44What this horse is bringing over
35:53Is a whole toolkit of genetic
35:55Lovely things
35:56That could, you know
35:58Take the Scottish herd
36:00In different directions
36:01And that, for me, is really exciting
36:03This isn't just about even my lifetime
36:08This is about, you know
36:09Other people's lifetimes
36:11Of all breeds
36:15The Clydesdale
36:17Deserves a future
36:18So today is D-Day
36:44Really is the conclusion
36:45Of Amber's journey over here
36:47She's had 3,000 kilometres by road
36:50And then another
36:51She's had an eight-hour journey
36:54From Chicago
36:54It's been delayed for five hours
36:56So she's going to be fairly tired
36:58I'm really looking forward to seeing her
37:01My husband Ross hasn't seen her at all
37:03So it's a big deal for both of us, really
37:33Amber coped ridiculously well with the travel
37:37It's now beginning to feel a bit like Christmas
37:40I'm very relieved that she is so cool with everything
37:46She just looks really alert
37:48Really interested in it all
37:49She's not fazed by it
37:50So that's good
37:51I don't need your help
38:10You're such a pest
38:14Come on, this is
38:16You go, it's over
38:17This is our Canadian lady
38:20I don't call my horses by their pedigree names
38:30It's quite nice just to hang with them for a while
38:32And find out what their characters are like
38:34She just doesn't feel like an amber
38:37She's not an amber light
38:39This horse is a full-on green light
38:42She was just so audacious
38:46That I decided to call her Jessie James
38:48After the outlaw
38:49Good girl
38:51Good girl
38:52Right, Steve-o
38:53We've got John Morris
38:56My local vet
38:57Come on, Jessie
38:58Coming to
38:59Have a look at
39:01Jessie
39:02I'm knackered
39:11This is your new girl, Janice
39:17This certainly is
39:18Good girl
39:19Good girl
39:22Right, so
39:27It's the identification documents for the Clydesdale Horse Society
39:32She looks a very different type
39:34It's interesting to see that there was another line of Clydesdales differentiated in another country
39:41In terms of her pregnancy, we don't know quite how far on she is
39:46It's really very difficult to try and get a date
39:50It's not unusual to find that people sit up for about two weeks waiting for their mare to fall
39:55And then they go to bed because they're so tired
39:57And then guess what happens? They fall that night
40:00And are there any particular features of a Clydesdale birth as opposed to a normal horse birth?
40:07Um, Clydesdales can be more difficult
40:13If the foal's not in the right position, then they can get stuck
40:19Beyond that, there's a sort of inner sack
40:22Normally the foal bursts through that as part of the birth process
40:26But if the foal is born and the sack is over its face, then it can't breathe
40:31It's quite scary stuff actually
40:35Especially when it's horses that you love
40:38If things go wrong, they go terribly wrong
40:43And they go wrong very, very quickly
40:45I've got a very good imagination
40:47I'm very good at imagining horror stories
40:50One thing that's become really clear to me about how we saved the Clydesdale is
41:02If we can't tie it to a hopeful future, it will die
41:06I really wanted to create the world centre for this horse
41:12That has got some permanence
41:15That's got some sustainability going forward
41:18That builds some value into the horses
41:24So that there's a market of people who want to buy them
41:28And look after them and enjoy them and keep bridging them
41:31The actual archway is 17th century
41:49I've not been here for years, absolutely years
42:03I think Pollock Park stables are fabulous
42:05They are fabulous, they are beautiful
42:08Early 18th century stables
42:10So they fit entirely with the story of the Clydesdale
42:13It's actually done well to stay up so well
42:16It has
42:17The roof's not exactly straight
42:18I see the pigeons have hooved in
42:20But it's not the worst
42:21Yes
42:25So these would have been the original stables
42:28Tell a few stories
42:32Lots of teeth marks and foot marks
42:34But no horses
42:36It would be great to get them back again
42:40Oh, they certainly would
42:41But that's the plan
42:42Yes, I hope so
42:46Seems to me that Pollock house stables is a bit of a gift
42:49Because it's right in the centre of Glasgow
42:51In the Clyde Valley
42:52The source of this amazing horse
42:57Pollock Park could be the thing that helps
42:59Save the Clydesdale
43:06I'm trying to keep sight of Jessie today
43:17Because she's really close to giving birth
43:20And I don't want her to creep off and give birth in the field shelter
43:25Or in some other corner of the field
43:27Because things happen really quickly in foaling
43:36This is me being organised
43:38I didn't want to get caught up in the action
43:41And not know what to do
43:43At what point does it get dangerous
43:46Just watching the time again with foal standing
43:48Sucking
43:49There's a one-two-three rule
43:51Which is foal standing within an hour
43:53Sucking within two hours
43:54And placenta passed within three hours
43:56If anything goes wrong
43:58It goes catastrophically wrong very, very quickly
44:10We installed a little Wi-Fi camera
44:14Which is brilliant
44:16Because it connects to my mobile phone
44:19Or my other devices
44:21And it means I can watch what's happening in the phone box
44:25So I can check during the night
44:27And just see where she's at
44:29If there's much movement
44:30The camera tells me there's movement
44:31All we can do now is wait
44:41Is wait
44:42Is wait
44:43Is wait
44:44Do you have any energy
44:45Is wait
44:46If you go forward
44:47To the camera
44:49And it means that
44:50The camera tells me
44:51To the camera
44:52To the camera
44:53If there's any voices
44:54To the camera
44:55Can you see there's a few windows
44:56That's how it seems to be
44:57And it means that
45:28Around 30% of Clydesdale foals are dying from a range of disorders commonly associated with a diminishing population and a thinning gene pool.
45:48And compared to most other kind of common horse breeds, deaths are really rare.
45:52So 30% is a huge number and it's heartbreaking.
45:57It's heartbreaking for breeders and it's heartbreaking for the mares who can carry their foals for a year before they give birth.
46:04We can do something about it.
46:05What I'd like to do now is to explore how we might create a sustainable world centre here in Pollock Park, Pollock Stables.
46:16Something that's vibrant, that's world class.
46:18I have been involved in this project.
46:27It makes sense to me and this is the moment when I discover if it is actually going to make sense to anybody else.
46:35So there's a lot riding in it.
46:38Old breeders as well, I think we need to actually work as one.
46:42We need to research old methods, trying to find a way of replicating that, look at what's missing.
46:48We'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.
46:56The urgency of the situation is to sort the gene cool out and have a breeding plan that will ensure the health and the continuity of this breed.
47:10It was really good, really positive, really positive.
47:13I really feel that we can make something happen.
47:16I feel very good about it.
47:18You know when someone feels right, you just know it.
47:26Hi there, it's Janice Kirkpatrick at Lindsayston.
47:34I have a mare who I think might follow tonight.
47:38Thank you.
47:39Thanks.
47:56It got to half past five in the morning and nothing, so I went back to sleep.
48:26I don't like looking back at that bit of film very much.
48:43The fold can't breathe in her own yet because her face is completely covered in this amniotic sack that has to be removed.
48:50And Jessie needs to break the sack, she needs to do it quickly, so the fold doesn't suffocate.
49:02Jessie just instinctively knows that she's got to get the sack off the face of her bowl and help her breathe.
49:10I woke up again ten past six and there's this little white face peering out from the straw at the back of the loose box.
49:39That was like a shock.
49:42That was like where the hell did that come from?
49:43I can't remember Ross is going, there's that face!
49:46There's that face!
49:47There's that face!
49:48Hello!
49:50Oh!
49:51It's not up yet.
49:53No, it's just happened.
49:54You're definitely there.
49:56You're going, John!
49:59John, who's John?
50:01It's an awful lot of luck.
50:04Erm...
50:05The bed?
50:09It's a wee girl!
50:10It's a wee girl.
50:24A wee girl.
50:25Mhmm.
50:27I.
50:31That is a good girl.
50:33Yeah!
50:33She's a beautiful boy.
50:35Yeah.
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