The international governing body for equestrian sports has decide thatcloned knight can contend at international events — include the Olympics . This reverses an early ban , that prohibited their usage in sporting events .
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“ The FEI will not forbid involvement of clones or their progenies in FEI competitions , ” the Federation Equestre Internationale said after its June coming together in Lausanne , Switzerland , concord to The Chronicle of the Horse . “ The FEI will continue to monitor further research , especially with regard to equid well-being . ”
That ’s unspoilt news for two ship’s company - ViaGen in Texas and Cryozootech in France - that have successfully cloned sensation horse , principally for breed purposes . Cryozootech has produced two knockoff of the American show - jumping wiz Gem Twist . ViaGen , which owns the right hand to the technology that produced the famous cloned sheep Dolly , has clone several horses , admit a one-quarter Equus caballus , a barrel racer , and a polo trot .
The FEI ruling enforce to external equestrian competitions such as the Olympics , but some other racing bodies still nix dead ringer , including thoroughbred racing organizations and the American Quarter Horse Association . The owner of several cloned horses have sue the AQHA over its prohibition .
So far , the clone horses have been used mostly for breeding rather than competing . None are scheduled to participate in the 2012 Olympics .
An American owner of a clone Equus caballus tell Horse & Hound that the increase banker’s acceptance of clone horses will probably moderate more possessor to start gene banks to put in tissue samples of their good horses . “ But cloning is expensive , so we bear that it will be throttle to a comparatively lowly turn of particular horse , ” she said .
It ’s not expected that any clone horse cavalry will contend at the upcoming London games , but it ’s potential that this could be the final Olympics in which they ’re abstracted . Read more about it at the contact . [ ticket ]
Photograph by mohdhaka viaBigStockPhoto.com .
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