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vr 14 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, August 21, 2001 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Union produces surprising results Immaculate conception By Heather McCrae Port Perry Star An immaculate con- ception of sorts: took place in the pasture eleven months ago, and the result of that union surprised and shocked the staff at Jericho Farm in Port Perry recently. Leo, a healthy and frol- icky newborn foal wel- comed one of the staff when she was out making rounds to check all the horses on the farm on PORT PERRY STAR CROSSWORD Aug. |. What's amazing about 'the birth is the age of the parents. Killdeer is a 26-year- old quarter- horse/Clydesdale mare and Horatio is the proud 32-year-old Belgian stal- lion. The two horses have been together for five years, says owner Hazel Morris. "Horatio never got along with the two geld- 29. Europe's Bay of ___ 32. Border on 35. Outlying 36. Potatoes 38. Henry Miller's literary pal 40. Berlin's *____ Lost In His Arms® (2 wds.) 42. Cassowary's kin 43. Jimmy Carter's alma mater. abbr. 44. Friendly 46. "_____ Degrees In The Shade" 48. imparts 49. Capshaw and Smith 50. Salon liquid 51. Parisian refusal SPONSORED BY 9 12 16 17 20 21 24 25 28 31 32 33 |34 37 38 39 43 46 |47 48 49 50 51 ACROSS DOWN 1. Vaudeville instrument, for 1. Suave and sophisticated short 2. Young foxes 4. Make the ____ fly 3. Sniggler's quarry 7. Written legal argument 4. For shame! 9. Did a pottery-making job 5. Bear, to Livy 11. Tenuous 6. Dwell 12. Rent payee 7. Like overcooked toast 14. Historical periods 8. Emulate the Hatfields and the 15. Application McCoys 17. insubstantial 9. Small bits 18. Sothem of "Maisie" 10. Perky Day 19. Decree 11. Poseidon's reaim 21. The Is cast 13. The Catcher In The 22. Sign of sorrow 16. Family member 24. Emulates Oksana Baiul 19. Sevareid and Roberts 26. Dogpatch diminutive 20. Brits' bye-byes 28. Gilliam or Erwin 23. Capp and Hirt 25. Marat's workplace 27. Jacket features that change with the times 29. Brunch bread 30. Smoothed out the wrinkles 31. Delicious! 33. Like Charlie on "Charlie's Angels" 34. Shades 35. Adam's clothes tree 37. Moisten a doughnut 39. Thumbs-down vote 41. Like Ho's bubbles 43. Golden Rule preposition 45. Block or cannon suffix 47. Singer Janis Crossword Answers on pg. 9 EMMERSON INSURANCE BROKERS LIMITED Personal, Professional Service Since 1917 "HOME ¢ FARM ¢ AUTO COMMERCIAL & LIABILITY 193 Queen St., Port Perry 905-985-7306 ings so | put him in with Killdeer and they got along just fine," she explained. Every three weeks when Killdeer would come into season the stallion would try to prove his manhood but the mare would have nothing to do with him. "She'd always wallop him: one with both hind feet," Mrs. Morris says, laughing. "It was like she was saying, 'sorry dear, I've got a headache' " But obviously Killdeer let down her guard eleven months ago, and the result of that union is Leo, a cute buckskin- coloured colt on sturdy legs. With the newborn colt close to her side, Killdeer is taking her first stab at motherhood with pride. The two horses are first-time parents, too. "Horatio was born here on the farm 33 years ago and he has never sired an offspring on this farm, until now," Mrs. Morris says. And, as for the Killdeer, the old sway- backed mare, this is also Leo. here with his mother, 26-year-old Killdeer, arrived at rhe Jericho Farm near Port Perry earlier this month. He is the first offspring for either Killdeer or his father, 32-year-old Horatio. her first, and probably only foal. In the thirty years vet- erinarian Harry Morrison has been in practice he's never seen a mare give birth for the first time at 26 years of age. SALE ENDS AUGUST 31, i Contoins 3 leads. i MPF-11 0.5 mm. MP-11 0.7 mm. 2001 ours. "And to have a stallion still fertile at the grand age of 32 is quite rare" Dr. Morrison added. Unsure at first about the foal's future, that's all © secure now. "I'l take him to Saskatchewan next year where | also have a large ranch. We'll use him for riding on the range as we check out our herds of Simmental cattle. "The little guy is caus- ing quite a sensation on the farm." Piano results for Copithorn students The following piano students ~~ completed plano exams recently and "were successful in achieving these - fine results, Congratulations are extended from their teacher, Mrs. Paula. Copithorn A.MUS. RM T of Port Perry. . Grade 2: Melissa Lane. - 87 per cent - first class honours. Grade 4: Kelley Bronson ~ 86 per cent - first class honours; Jenny Van Andel - 74 per, cent - . honours, ; Grade hi Haindh honours. An Grade 9: Linda \ Andel - 70 per cont oe