He became more human after he married Terri Miller.
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No, you would not. Sorry, but cloning isn’t allowed by the Jockey Club, which is where Secretariat was registered. You’d be in a heap of trouble if you cloned him. 
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What if @chestnutmarebeware didn’t plan to register her little Secretariat, but wanted to clone for a riding horse? Would there be trouble with the JC in that case?
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Trouble? Or just a very expensive un-registerable foal? I doubt the JC can stop you from cloning a TB, just from registering one, like AQHA.
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Oh, they’ll never know. I’m content to know the flashy chestnut running away with me on a cross country course is Secretariat, but I wouldn’t be filling out a JC registration form… 
I’m thinking his show name would be something like Second Secretary, Big Red Redux, Deja Vu, etc.
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I fell in love with Volturno too! Swore one day I would have a warmblood. I got to meet Secretariat too but did not get to pet him. I was struck by how heavy he was and how small his feet were. This was before he foundered.
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BTW, now that I‘ve been outed with my plan to create my own Secretariat, I’m trusting that y’all will start a Go Fund Me page to help when the folks in the black helicopters show up at my house!
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I think I read somewhere that the polo people clone a lot of their good polo horses. And I’m sure they don’t care about registering them, just about whether they can do the job at hand.
Coincidentally, just yesterday I saw a horse at a show that did look a lot like a clone of the one I have the lock of mane from at my house. Maybe somebody beat me to it! Lol.
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Ok, I’ll play, here are my celebrity encounters:
I have taken lessons or clinics or audited clinics with Jimmy Wofford, Lucinda Green, (she autographed a copy of her book for me), Karen O’Connor, Elizabeth Lewis and Robin Brueckman (many years ago, before she was competing as a para-athlete.)
I yelled at Pierce Brosnan’s limo driver before I looked in the back seat and saw Pierce Brosnan.
I made an ass of myself being introduced to Liz Taylor.
That’s it.
And my riding still sucks.
ETA: Oh, and I bumped into Boyd at the Track Kitchen in Aiken! Almost literally, then he held the door for me.
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Where was that? I have been a fan of his ever since the days of Remington Steele.
It’s been fun to see him recently doing the talk shows to promote the latest Marvel movie. Who saw that coming?!? I definitely did not.
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UK’s William Fox-Pitt cloned his beloved Badminton winning 3DE stallion, Chilli Morning, and there are at least three clones on the ground currently (I think he owns them all).
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@MHM,
It was right after Remington Steele. He was filming a direct to TV Turner movie, and they were filming at the farm where I had my business. He had JUST been announced as the new James Bond. Trying to avoid the media attention, someone sent his driver out the back way from the farm.
The driver, understandably misunderstanding the directions, turned in MY gate and was speeding past the barn and paddocks on the dirt road that led to my arena.
We had all been living and dealing with the movie people for about 6 weeks at this time and were fed up. Free donuts and coffee at the commissary only buys you so much good will.
So I stood in front of the limo, stopped it, walked around to the driver’s side and was having a “animated” conversation with the driver, when I happened to look in the back seat.
Pierce smiled and gave a small wave.
I finished insulting the driver’s ancestor’s, hygiene and general character and let him execute a 5 point turn and go back out to the actual back route out of the farm.
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Polo does a lot of cloning!
He is vile. I once was the subject of his wrath too.
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That’s great!!
I would have loved to attend the premiere of his version of the Thomas Crown Affair, but unfortunately it was in the Hamptons either the week before or the week after I was there. I just missed it!
Cruising has also been cloned
wow…I actually have interacted with him a few times over the years and didn’t see the wrath…I do think he was/is a good judge.
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Mr. D submitted a filing. Could someone post it here please. My phone freezes up when I try it. Thanks!
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Thank you! Also, what is the difference between a counter claim and a cross claim?
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