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“We were unable to find the little foals. And several of the other ones, we tried unsuccessfully to catch and treat. It’s difficult because they live in the wild,” Cheatham said.

"Usually, if an animal loses a calf or a foal or a lamb, they will stay with the dead animal," he said.

Dwindling foal crops, shrinking purses and a stagnant and aging fan base has pointed to California racing being on the edge of extinction.

A donkey foal at a popular farm park has ended up with two mums after a "one in a million" birth.

As a May foal, he was a little late developing.