Now Cloned Horses

[Patriot Heart]

I suppose this could go under the "Pet" category...anyway you look at it something doesn't feel right. I hope I am dead and gone before this kind of stuff is routine but I fear it will come sooner than later.....



<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=468 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle colSpan=3>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/i/t.gif</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD><!-- start main content --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=468 border=0><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD width=334>Cloned foal is a racing cert for science
(Filed: 15/04/2005)

Pieraz is a horse who could revolutionise blood stock breeding, reports Roger Highfield, Science Editor. But he could have been British

<!--MPU STOPPED BY MEDIA -->A project to clone elite showhorses reported its first success yesterday with a cloned foal of Pieraz, an Arab endurance champion.

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=207 align=right border=0 hspace="0"><TBODY><TR><TD width=8 rowSpan=2> </TD><TD width=199><CENTER>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2005/04/15/nfoal15.jpg</CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD class=caption><CENTER>Pieraz 2 trots in his enclosure while his birth mother grazes contentedly</CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Although clones are banned from thoroughbred racing, a French scientist has stored tissue from champion showhorse geldings (castrated horses), for the creation of breeding stock.

The birth of the foal - Pieraz 2 - in Italy marks the first success for this commercial enterprise after almost three years of attempts by scientists in Cremona.
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[HomeschoolrsRUs]

PH,

I'm with you! Just came from a horse show with my daughter and her horse, where there were LOTS of beautiful geldings there . . . but I wouldn't want to see a bunch of exact copies running along side them.

This is not good ... I forsee many troubles.