A healthy foal will grow rapidly, gaining in height, weight and strength almost before your very eyes. From birth to the age of two, a young horse can achieve ninety percent or more of its full adult size, sometimes putting on as many as three pounds per day. Add a healthy dose of daily frolicking to that exhausting rate of growth plus, well…horse play, and you’ll find even the most rambunctious of the herd’s youngsters "Lounging in the Lupines." - Judy Larson