Brave New World
I am not up to date with genetics and the sports world. The horse racing world has crossed a bridge that I was only partly aware of.
Throughbreds and breeding is very old school. The stallion has a date with a mare. They do the wild thing and about 340 days later the foal is dropped.
Quarterhorse racing and standardbreds skipped the mating ritual more than a few years ago and just recently the AQHA and horse breeders with CLONED horses are in a court fight.
I guess the genetics industry has made cloned horses possible. Things have come a ways since Dolly the cloned sheep. I realized recently that there was a lot of invitro breeding in the animal science realm. Embryo transplants, cooled seamen shipped to impregnate mare. Is the birth mare the horse that donated the egg, the horse that gave birth to the foal? The answer these days is a resounding maybe, could be, or might not be. Horse(child) birth can be a dangerous time, why take the risk if Mom was a real runner and can have more than one baby a year with embryo transplants.
Who are the genetic police that monitor this stuff. As this stuff goes, where will it stop.
What kind of a race would it be if there were 8 horses in a race and they were all cloned from the same genetic material. If they were all first time starters with eight different owners and the only difference being their names.
Humans have enough family problems. Dog owners cloning a pet is weird and expensive and between the AQHA and the horse cloners I think this is one time progress might be going back to a simpler time.
Throughbreds and breeding is very old school. The stallion has a date with a mare. They do the wild thing and about 340 days later the foal is dropped.
Quarterhorse racing and standardbreds skipped the mating ritual more than a few years ago and just recently the AQHA and horse breeders with CLONED horses are in a court fight.
I guess the genetics industry has made cloned horses possible. Things have come a ways since Dolly the cloned sheep. I realized recently that there was a lot of invitro breeding in the animal science realm. Embryo transplants, cooled seamen shipped to impregnate mare. Is the birth mare the horse that donated the egg, the horse that gave birth to the foal? The answer these days is a resounding maybe, could be, or might not be. Horse(child) birth can be a dangerous time, why take the risk if Mom was a real runner and can have more than one baby a year with embryo transplants.
Who are the genetic police that monitor this stuff. As this stuff goes, where will it stop.
What kind of a race would it be if there were 8 horses in a race and they were all cloned from the same genetic material. If they were all first time starters with eight different owners and the only difference being their names.
Humans have enough family problems. Dog owners cloning a pet is weird and expensive and between the AQHA and the horse cloners I think this is one time progress might be going back to a simpler time.
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