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General Category => General Harness Racing Discussion => Topic started by: Lockjaw on July 09, 2013, 08:36:01 AM

Title: Cloning Racehorses?
Post by: Lockjaw on July 09, 2013, 08:36:01 AM

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/09/19356605-horse-cloners-try-to-force-their-way-into-the-starting-gate?lite

Title: Re: Cloning Racehorses?
Post by: LVGaryD on July 09, 2013, 08:58:35 AM

Cloning racehorses is not a good thing. 4pezz2

Title: Re: Cloning Racehorses?
Post by: 3 wide and wingin on July 09, 2013, 11:00:53 AM

The story opens with this.

Horse race fixers have long used “ringers” to pull off betting coups, but a new kind of ringer -- genetic duplicates cloned from the DNA of yesterday’s champions -- could soon be barreling around a racetrack near you if two Texas horsemen have their way.




And people wonder why the game is dying?
Between that perception and the thoroughbred break down rate I don't know what racing will be left in 20 years.