Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and the vets were impressed with the superb quality and very high motility of the semen. Wiseguy Too Two actually had the record of motility before and after thawing at New Bolton Center remarking that they had never seen that level of fertility.” They did freeze some semen for future use, and he
already added them last year to his breeding program, pair- ing them with top eventing mares like Sally Cousin’s four- star mare Tsunami—though since she was already 14 years old and never bred, it did not take. (They plan to try again.) Ronald also bred his own four-year-old, Ti Amo Z, to Wise- guy Too Top and got an embryo which was just transferred to a recipient mare who has been confirmed pregnant. “It is great and, in a way, funny,” he says. “Wiseguy, who is
a gelding, will become in eleven months a sire, by passing on his genes through his clones!” In the long term, he plans to keep breeding the clones
for both pure show jumping and for eventing. All three clones also have promising futures as performance horses: they were presented in 2013 as two-year-olds at the US Eventing Association’s Future Event Horse Series at Loch Moy Farms in Maryland, where they won first, second and fourth places in the two-year-old colt class (He was unfor- tunately out of the country and could not take them to the final). In 2014, as three-year-olds, they placed first, second and third, and in November at the finals they placed first, second and fifth in the three-year-old colt class.
He plans for them to follow in the steps of Wiseguy and
compete at the FEI World Breeding Eventing Champion- ships for Young Horses, next held this October at Mondial du Lion in France. “Wiseguy placed fourth in 2005 as a six- year-old in the CCI1* division and in 2006 he placed 12th as a 7-year-old in the CCI2* division. Combining the results of both years, he was second in the world as a Young Horse. Wiseguy later competed at Rolex Kentucky in 2009.” After coming back from an injury, Wiseguy himself is
back in action and competing at the upper levels again, alongside Ronald’s 2012 Olympic horse Big Boy. “If every- thing goes well, and if we get the spot for Rio 2016, who knows, he could be the one taking me there,” he muses. “I would love that. Wiseguy has three great eventing phases because he is very relaxed, an excellent mover, very scopey, very careful and super brave. In his competition record, there has never been a stop or run out. Never. I think that through his clones he will be able to produce horses for dressage, show jumping and eventing.” Over the past few years, cloning has become an increas-
ingly accepted part of sport horse breeding, dramatically affecting the gene pool since geldings can be cloned for breeding. As more known clones produce offspring who enter the competition scene, time will tell whether they live up to the promise of those they were cloned to recre- ate. You can bet both cloning advocates as well as sceptical sport horse enthusiasts will all be watching!
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