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To the person inquiring to the cost, it may have come down but 6 years ago when I was around several cloned horses it was around $100k. The clones dont look like the original, but often exhibit some of the same personality traits. All the clones were bred to be used in non-breed competition: cutting, barrel racing and cow events. Two were clones of a great performer and sire who died and most others were clones of geldings that rose to the top ranks of their sport.[/QUOTE]
Funny you should say that. A few years ago a friend of mine brought me to her friend’s polo farm, who I was not familiar with. We were trying a nice little TB mare, who had flunked racing and then polo training. She wasn’t brave with other horses. To make a long story short friend was interested in the mare, tried her, rode her, liked her. Ended up with a different horse but that’s another story.
As we were walking down the barn aisle (this was down south, so think pole barn shed row) I pet the muzzle of a nice old mare, slender of face with a very inquisitive “look at me now” 'tude and waggling tongue. Passed a row of geldings and did a double take as the horse in the stall I passed swung her head over the door with her tongue lolling out. I was instructed to grab it :lol: I was struck by how similar she was to the other mare and asked if it was her daughter… The owner replied nonchalantly “no, that is her clone”. :eek: Little old me got to stroke the muzzle of a clone! Too cool.
The ones I have seen have almost always been identical in construction/conformation - with slight differences in markings occasionally.
