The Horse: First Foal Sired by Cloned Stallion Born

First Foal Sired by Cloned Stallion Born

by: Erin Ryder, TheHorse.com News Editor
May 22 2008, Article # 11918

The first foal sired by a cloned stallion is now nearly a month old. The filly, named Pierazade du Vialaret, is the first get of stallion Pieraz-Cryozootech-Stallion, a clone of two-time World Champion endurance horse Pieraz. The original Pieraz is an Arabian gelding. He was cloned so that his exact genes could be perpetuated. Pieraz-Cryozootech-Stallion was born in February 2005 at the Laboratorio di Tecnologie della Riproduzione-Consorzio per ...

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